1963 Skopje earthquake
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The 1963 Skopje earthquake was a 6.1 moment magnitude earthquake which occurred in Skopje, SR Macedonia, then part of the SFR Yugoslavia, on July 26, 1963, which killed over 1,070 people, injured betw
Damage in Skopje following the earthquake
First hours after the earthquake
Destroyed apartment building in downtown Skopje.
From John F. Kennedy Library: National Security Action Memorandum No. 267 Disaster Assistance for Skopje – NARA – 193638, written and signed on October 18, 1963, by president Kennedy's national security advisor McGeorge Bundy
Josip Broz Tito
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Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1943 to 1963 and as president from 1953 until his death in 1980. He
1963 Skopje earthquake
…lasted for 20 seconds and was felt mostly along the Vardar River Valley. There were also smaller aftershocks until 5:43. Following the earthquake, Josip Broz Tito, president of SFR Yugoslavia, sent a message of condolences to the Socialist Republic of Macedonia before visiting the city personally later on. Within…
Official portrait, 1961
Tito's birthplace in the village of Kumrovec, Croatia
The Sviyazhsk Assumption Monastery, where Tito recuperated from his wounds
The assassination of the Minister of the Interior, Milorad Drašković, led to the outlawing of the Communist Party.