Novocherkassk massacre
Troops fire on workers protesting against price rises
In June 1962 workers at the locomotive plant went on strike after meat and butter prices were raised just as their pay rates were cut. On 2 June troops fired on the demonstration outside the party offices, killing 26; seven more were later executed. It stayed hushed up until 1989.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 15 years earlier
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 14 years earlier
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 13 years earlier
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 18 years later
- 1981 AIDS first described — 19 years later
Europe
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — 21 years earlier
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — 9 years earlier
- 1957 Treaty of Rome — 5 years earlier
- 1961 Berlin Wall built — 1 year earlier
- 1968 May 1968 in France — 6 years later
Middle East
- 1948 Founding of the State of Israel — 14 years earlier
- 1948–1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the Nakba — 14 years earlier
- 1953 Iranian coup against Mosaddegh — 9 years earlier
- 1978 Camp David Accords — 16 years later
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 17 years later
Africa
- 1958 Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart — 4 years earlier
- 1960 Year of Africa — 2 years earlier
- 1963 The Organisation of African Unity is founded — 1 year later
- 1967 First human heart transplant — 5 years later
- 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War and Biafra — 5 years later
Asia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 17 years earlier
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 9 years earlier
- 1964 First Shinkansen high-speed railway — 2 years later
- 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution in China — 4 years later
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 13 years later
Americas
- 1960 Great Chilean earthquake — 2 years earlier
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis — same year
- 1969 Moon landing — 7 years later
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 8 years later
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 21 years later
Oceania
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 21 years earlier
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 20 years earlier
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 8 years earlier
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — 3 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Winston Churchill (aged 88)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 81)
- Charlie Chaplin (aged 73)
- Mao Zedong (aged 69)
- Nelson Mandela (aged 44)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (aged 33)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 32)
- Yuri Gagarin (aged 28)
- Bertrand Russell (aged 90)
- Harry S. Truman (aged 78)