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  • Sudan
    Jun, 1976
    Ebola Most Major Outbreaks

    First Ebola Outbreak

    Sudan
    Jun, 1976

    The first Ebola outbreak was in Sudan from June 1976 to November 1976, known as the SUDV with 284 human cases and 151 human deaths making the case fatality rate 53%. The outbreak occurred in Nzara (the source town), Maridi, Tambura, and Juba (cities in present-day South Sudan). The index cases were workers in a cotton factory. The disease was spread by close contact with an acute case, usually from patients to their nurses. Many medical care personnel was infected.




  • Utah, U.S.
    Jun, 1976
    Ted Bundy

    Utah State Prison

    Utah, U.S.
    Jun, 1976

    In June he was sentenced to one-to-15 years in the Utah State Prison.




  • Maroon Lake, Colorado, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 10, 1976
    Ted Bundy

    Ted broke into a camping trailer on Maroon Lake

    Maroon Lake, Colorado, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 10, 1976

    On June 10, Ted broke into a camping trailer on Maroon Lake, 10 miles (16 km) south of Aspen, taking food and a ski parka; but instead of continuing southward, he walked back north toward Aspen, eluding roadblocks and search parties along the way.




  • Aspen, Colorado, U.S.
    Sunday Jun 13, 1976
    Ted Bundy

    Bundy stole a car at the edge of Aspen Golf Course

    Aspen, Colorado, U.S.
    Sunday Jun 13, 1976

    Bundy stole a car at the edge of Aspen Golf Course. Cold, sleep-deprived, and in constant pain from his sprained ankle, he drove back into Aspen, where two police officers noticed his car weaving in and out of its lane and pulled him over. He had been a fugitive for six days.




  • Sycamore Park, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 19, 1976
    Juneteenth

    30,000 people attended festivities at Sycamore Park

    Sycamore Park, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 19, 1976

    Around 30,000 people attended festivities at Sycamore Park in Fort Worth the following year.




  • Uganda
    Sunday Jun 27, 1976
    Shimon Peres

    248 Paris-bound travelers

    Uganda
    Sunday Jun 27, 1976

    On 27 June 1976, Peres, as Minister of Defense, along with Rabin, had to deal with a coordinated act of terrorism when 248 Paris-bound travelers on an Air France plane were taken hostage by pro-Palestinian hijackers and flown to Uganda, Africa, 2,000 miles away.




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