Contemporary era · 1962 – 1963
Tanganyika laughter epidemic
The Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of mass hysteria in or near the village of Kashasha on the western coast of Lake Victoria in Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania), near the border with Uganda.
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- When
- 30 Jan 1962
- Where
- Tanganyika
- Era
- Contemporary
Before and after
Text from the Wikipedia article Tanganyika laughter epidemic, CC BY-SA 4.0