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The Skull Valley Sheep Kill

Thousands of sheep die next to a US chemical weapons testing ground, plus Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, and Elvis in the army.

Thousands of sheep die next to a US chemical weapons testing ground in 1968, plus Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, also Elvis in the army and the assassination of a presidential candidate in Mexico.

Photo: Two farmers checking the corpses of dead sheep on a farm ranch, possibly connected to a chemical and biological warfare testing at Dugway Proving Ground, March 1968; credit: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images

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