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Week starting Monday 16 December |
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16 |
1900 |
A secret exchange of letters between the leaders of France and Italy commits both countries to respect each others rights in North Africa. Italy is to have Libya while France gets Morocco. |
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16 |
1956 |
UN troops occupy Port Said, Suez Canal Zone, following the abortive Tripartite Invasion. |
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16 |
1963 |
A general amnesty is announced for Mau Mau forest fighters in Kenya. |
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17 |
1947 |
The leaders of the seven Arab League States call for an armed over Palestine. |
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17 |
1960 |
Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Ethiopia after being ousted by his son. |
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17 |
1993 |
American troops are pulled out of Somalia following a series of gun battles with Somali troops under the command of General Mohammed Farah Aidid. |
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18 |
1932 |
Amy Johnson lands in the UK after a pioneering flight of seven days, seven hours and five minutes from South Africa. |
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19 |
1969 |
Ugandan premier Apollo Milton Obote is shot in the head by a gunman. |
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19 |
1982 |
South Africa's only nuclear power plant, Koeberg, is bombed by the MK (Umkhonto we Sizwe, The Spear of the Nation) causing extensive damage. |
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20 |
1935 |
Italians are driven back to the Dembeguina Pass when Abyssinian troops cross the River Takkaze. |
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20 |
1969 |
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat is named by Colonel Gamal Abdul al-Nasser as his successor. |
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21 |
1961 |
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe agrees to a unification of the Congo. |
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21 |
1967 |
Louis Washkansky, the world's first heart transplant patient dies. The heart was obtained from a 24-year-old motor-accident victim, Denise Darvall, and was transplanted by Dr Christiaan Barnard only 18 days before. |
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22 |
1953 |
Twenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death in Kenya for their part in the Lari massacre. |
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22 |
1993 |
Centuries of white rule come to an end as the South African parliament votes itself out of existence. |
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