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History “Today”: The Munich Massacre
Posted by Rich in Educational on September 5th, 2009
September 5, 1972. On this day, the Summer Games in Munich, West Germany was best remembered not for the world-class athletes who dominated the various field of sports, rather, by the terrorists called Black September who killed 11 athletes and coaches from the Israeli Olympic team.
Sneaking in at the athlete’s village, five of the Palestinian [...]