Two C-130 Hercules used to airlift food to Ghor province[?] in central Afghanistan during the winter returned to their African base. They had flown back and forth between Herat or Mashad[?], Iran and Ghor almost every day for five months, distributing 6,400 metric tons of food and seeds to more than 460,000 Afghans.
... October 4 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor
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