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Events on Thursday 14 July 1960 1
1960Arrives at Gombe Stream -- July 1960On 14 July 1960, the 26-year-old Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, accompanied by her mother. For months the chimpanzees fled from her. She persisted, observing from a distance with binoculars, slowly earning the trust of the community she would study for the next sixty years.