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| − | On March 21, 1960 [South Africa]]n police fired on a group of black anti-[[apartheid]] protesters, killing 69 people and wounding 180. The massacre occurred in the township of Sharpeville in what is now the Gauteng province. | + | On March 21, 1960 [[South Africa]]n police fired on a group of black anti-[[apartheid]] protesters, killing 69 people and wounding 180. The massacre occurred in the township of Sharpeville in what is now the Gauteng province. |
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On March 21, 1960 South African police fired on a group of black anti-apartheid protesters, killing 69 people and wounding 180. The massacre occurred in the township of Sharpeville in what is now the Gauteng province.