| Week
starting Saturday 11 June |
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| Date |
Year |
Event |
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| 11 |
1940 |
World War II: North Africa
British planes raid Italian targets in Libya following Italy's declaration
of war against Britain and France on the 10th. |
| 11 |
1960 |
Libyan president Colonel Muammar Kadhaffi admits to
providing funds, munitions, and training to the IRA. |
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For more on 11 June |
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| 12 |
1912 |
The Italian Aviation Corps' Second Aerial Company
undertakes night raids against Turkish lines in Tripolitania. |
| 12 |
1943 |
World War II: North Africa
British King George IV lands in Algiers at the start of a North African
tour of Allied troops. |
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For more on 12 June |
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| 13 |
1950 |
DF Malan's National Party government votes to separate
the people of South Africa into four distinct races (White, Bantu,
Coloured, and Indian) through the Population Registration Act (No. 30 of
1950), and to separate South Africa into separate areas (for the exclusive
use of each race) through the Group Areas Act (No. 41 of 1950) both
commence on 7 July, 1950. |
| 13 |
1956 |
Britain gives up claims to the Suez Canal and ends 72
years of British occupation of Egypt. |
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For more on 13 June |
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| 14 |
1929 |
General JMB Hertzog's National Party wins the South
African general election with an outright majority: race plays a critical
role for the first time. (Hertzog accused Smuts' party of supporting racial
equality, and represented a Nationalist vote as a vote for a "white
South Africa".) |
| 14 |
1941 |
World War II: Operation BATTLEAXE
British forces launch Operation BATTLEAXE, an attempt to relieve the
garrison at Tobruk. |
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For more on 14 June |
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| 15 |
1949 |
DF Malan's Herenigde Nationale Party (HNP, Re-united
National Party) government approves the Citizenship Bill which requires
Britons to wait five years before achieving citizenship. |
| 15 |
1956 |
Tunisia's autonomy in foreign affairs is confirmed when
an agreement is signed with the French government. |
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For more on 15 June |
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| 16 |
1911 |
The City of Fez, Morocco, is occupied by the French
army. |
| 16 |
1976 |
June
16th Student Uprising - high-school students in Soweto protest against
Bantu education, police responded with tear gas and live bullets. |
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For more on 16 June |
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| 17 |
1960 |
Joseph Kasavubu is selected to be the first president of
the Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC). |
| 17 |
1991 |
South African government votes to abolish two mainstays
of Apartheid: Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act (No. 108
of 1991) repeals the 1913 Black Land Act, the 1936 Development Trust and
Land Act, the 1966 Group Areas Act and the 1984 Black Communities
Development Act. The Act is promulgated on 28 June and commences on 30 June
1991.
Population Registration Act Repeal Act No (114 of 1991) repeals the
1950 Population Registration Act. |
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For more on 17 June |
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