The Mont Blanc glacier in the French Alps yields more and more secrets as it melts – this time a clutch of newspapers with banner headlines from when Indira Gandhi became India’s first and so far only woman prime minister in 1966.The copies of Indian newspapers, the National Herald and The Economic Times, were probably aboard an Air India Boeing 707 that crashed on the mountain on January 24, 1966, claiming 177 lives.The trove of around a dozen newspapers was found last week by Timothee Mottin,…
from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3092893/indira-gandhi-pm-melting-french-glacier-yields-old
Monday, July 13, 2020
‘Indira Gandhi is PM’: melting French glacier yields old newspapers, likely from 1966 Air India plane crash
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