The leader of communist Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, died after a long illness on May 4, 1980, just days before his 88th birthday. On Sunday, May 4, Tito is described as being in a “very grave“ and “critical“ condition in the latest of the bulletins which reported updates on his health since he was admitted to hospital in Ljubljana nearly four months earlier. The news of his death finally comes in the early evening, in a statement from the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and the
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