| Week
starting Saturday 9 July |
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| Date |
Year |
Event |
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| 9 |
1948 |
A month long cease-fire ends in the Middle-East as Egypt
attacks Israeli positions by air. At the same time Iraq attacks by land. |
| 9 |
1996 |
Nelson Mandela arrives in Britain for a four day state
visit. |
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For more on 9 July |
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| 10 |
1942 |
World War II: North Africa
Mussolini returns to Rome having given up on his plans for a triumphal
entry into Cairo. |
| 10 |
1964 |
Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé, leader of the Confederation of
Tribal Associations of Katanga, becomes prime minister of the Democratic
Republic of Congo. |
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For more on 10 July |
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| 11 |
1915 |
World War I: East Africa
The SMS Königsberg, which has been based in the Rufiji delta is
sunk by the British Navy. The British had known it was based at a place
called Salale, information gained from intercepted signals, but the town
was not marked on any Royal Navy maps! Once her berth was discovered,
however, she was kept under observation. An attempt to bomb her with
aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service failed - she was too well hidden
beneath overhanging trees. Eventually two Royal Naval monitors followed her
up river, and aided by aerial observers, sank her with a bombardment. |
| 11 |
1973 |
One hundred and twelve Peace Corps workers are detained
and then expelled from Uganda by President Idi Amin Dada. |
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For more on 11 July |
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| 12 |
1975 |
Manuel Pinto da Costa becomes the first president of the
newly independent Democratic Republic of Sâo Tomé and Príncipe. |
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For more on 12 July |
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| 13 |
1980 |
Death of Sir Seretse Khama, nationalist leader and first
president of Botswana, due to pancreatic cancer. (Date of birth 1 July
1921.) |
| 13 |
1986 |
Zola Budd and Annette Cowley, South African runner and
swimmer respectively, are banned from the Commonwealth Games. |
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For more on 13 July |
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| 14 |
1904 |
Death of Stephanus Johannes Paulus (Paul) Kruger,
president of the South African Republic (Trasnvaal), whilst in exile in
Clarens, Switzerland. |
| 14 |
1960 |
Patrice Lumumba breaks off diplomatic relations with
Belgium and calls on the United Nations and Soviet Union for aid in the
growing crisis. |
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For more on 14 July |
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| 15 |
1960 |
UN troops arrive to help deal with the political crisis
following Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé's delcaration of independence for Katanga
province on 11 July. Meanwhile the province of South Kasai also declares
independence, calling itself the Federal State of South Kasai, with Joseph
Ngalula as head of parliament. |
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For more on 15 July |
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