The Modern Megacity · event 6 of 13

2 October 1968

Tlatelolco. Ten days before the Olympics open, the army and a paramilitary unit fire on a student demonstration at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. The death toll has never been established.

The The Modern Megacity era

  1. 1929
  2. 1934
  3. 1940
  4. 1952
  5. 1956
  6. 2 October 1968
  7. 1978
  8. 19 September 1985
  9. 1997
  10. 2000
  11. 2016
  12. 19 September 2017
  13. 2024

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