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Emperor Haile Selassie seen here with President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in an open convertible in Washington, DC, during the former's official visit to the United States, on October 6, 1963.
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Kenyan Ambassador in France, Juxon Shako meets President Charles De Gaulle and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville to present his credentials, February 06, 1964, at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
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A Kenyan waiter wearing a red fez serving canapes to wedding guests at an all-white wedding in the Subukia Valley, part of the White Highlands of Kenya, circa July 1964.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
Ahead of his speech at 7:00 pm EDT on 22 October, President Kennedy formally established the executive committee (EXCOMM) with National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 196. He also met with Congressional leaders, who contentiously opposed a blockade and demanded a stronger response. In Moscow, US Ambassador Foy D. Kohler briefed Khrushchev on the pending blockade and Kennedy's speech to the nation.
During the speech, a directive went out to all US forces worldwide, placing them on DEFCON 3. The heavy cruiser USS Newport News was the designated flagship for the blockade, with USS Leary as Newport News's destroyer escort. Kennedy's speech writer Ted Sorensen stated in 2007 that the address to the nation was "Kennedy's most important speech historically, in terms of its impact on our planet."
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Ministers Ronald Ngala (Cooperatives and Social Services), Tom Mboya (Economic Planning) and Paul Ngei (Housing) examine the gold medals won by Kipchoge Keino at the Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, as the Kenyan team made a triumphant return on 22nd August 1966.
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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales pictured with local guides and military escort as he takes part in a four day safari through the Ngare Valley in Kenya in February 1971.
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The coffin of former President of Kenya Mzee Jomo Kenyatta (1894 - 1978), borne by pallbearers in Nairobi, Kenya on 31st August 1978.
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National Theatre, Government Road, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, circa 1956.
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View of a pair of cheetahs resting on and around a felled tree in Amboseli Game Reserve, with Mt Kilimanjaro in the background, Kenya, 1964.
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On June 27, 1976, an Air France Airbus A300 with 248 passengers was hijacked by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO) and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells.
The hijackers had demanded the release of 40 Palestinian militants imprisoned in Israel and 13 prisoners in four other countries in exchange for the hostages.
Originating in Tel Aviv with the destination of Paris, the flight was diverted to Entebbe, the main airport of Uganda. The hijackers were joined by three other terrorists in Entebbe and received support from then Ugandan president Idi Amin and the Ugandan government.
The hijackers moved the hostages to a disused airport building and separated all Israelis and several non-Israeli Jews from the larger group. Over the following two days, 148 non-Israeli hostages were released and 94 hostages, mainly Israeli, along with the 12-member Air France crew, remained as hostages.
On July 4, 1976, the IDF acted on the information provided by the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, and planned a rescue mission. The operation, which lasted about 90 minutes, took place at night. Israeli transport planes carried 100 commandos to Uganda for the rescue operation. The Israel assault team landed at the airport and quickly approached the terminal. The hostages were kept in the main hall of the airport building, directly adjacent to the runway. Entering the terminal, the commandos shouted through a megaphone, "Stay down! Stay down! We are Israeli soldiers," in both Hebrew and English. The commandos then entered the second room and shot dead the remaining hijackers, ending the assault. The team then destroyed Ugandan MiG fighter planes to prevent them from pursuing.
After killing the hijackers, the Israeli assault team began loading the hostages into the aircraft. The Ugandan soldiers then started shooting at them in the process and five commandos were wounded, and Israeli unit commander Yonatan Netanyahu, brother of the current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was killed. The team finished evacuating the hostages, loaded Netanyahu's body into one of the planes, and left the airport. All seven hijackers were killed, and around 45 Ugandan soldiers were killed. Out of the 106 hostages, three were killed, one was left in Uganda for treatment (74-year-old Dora Bloch), and 10 were wounded. The 102 rescued hostages were flown to Israel via Nairobi, Kenya, shortly after the raid.
Following the Israeli raid, Ugandan commander Isaac Maliyamungu had 14 soldiers arrested under suspicion of collaborating with the Israel army and allegedly shot 12 of them with his pistol. Dora Bloch, a 74-year-old Israeli who was taken to the Mulago Hospital in Kampala was murdered by officers of the Uganda Army.
President Amin ordered the killing of Kenyans living in Uganda in retaliation for Kenya's assistance to Israel in the rescue mission. The Ugandan army killed around 245 Kenyans, including airport staff at Entebbe.
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