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Events on Saturday 18 November 1978 1
1978Jonestown massacreOver 900 members of the Peoples Temple die in mass murder-suicideCult leader Jim Jones ordered followers at his Jonestown settlement in Guyana to drink cyanide-laced punch after members of his group murdered US Congressman Leo Ryan and others at a nearby airstrip. It remains the largest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act prior to 9/11.