The Entebbe raid was a hostage rescue carried out by Israeli commandos at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. An Air France plane from Tel Aviv to Paris had been hijacked in late June 1976 by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two Germans, and diverted to Uganda, where the ruler Idi Amin allowed the hijackers to hold the passengers in the old terminal. The hijackers freed most non-Israeli passengers and threatened to kill the rest. In an operation known as Thunderbolt, Israeli aircraft flew more than 3,000 kilometers, landed at night and freed over a hundred hostages in about an hour. Three hostages and the commander, Yonatan Netanyahu, were killed.
Before and after
- April 1976Invention of make
- 1 April 1976Founding of Apple Inc.
- 26 May 1976Death of Martin Heidegger
- 26 June 1976Construction of CN Tower
- 4 July 1976Entebbe raid
- 18 July 1976Nadia Comaneci scores the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics
- 20 July 1976Viking 1 lands on Mars
- 28 July 19761976 Tangshan earthquake
- 9 August 1976Launch of Luna 24
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