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Sixty-nine demionstrators are shot dead by police in what has come to be known as The Sharpeville Massacre, in Sharpeville, Transvaal, South Africa. Ewan MacColl's song The Ballad Of Sharpeville will tell the story. This horrific event will also be memorialised in jazz bassist Mario Pavone's 1988 album Sharpeville.
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