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Week starting Monday 23 December |
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| Date | Year |
Event |
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23 |
1961 |
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe leads the Congo province of Katanga into secession. |
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23 |
1962 |
President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, a leading exponent of Pan-Africanism, orders the release of the last of his political prisoners, previously detained under the Preventive Detention Act of 1958. |
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24 |
1951 |
British run Tripolitania and Cyrenaica join with French administered Fezzan to form newly independent Libya. |
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24 |
1980 |
Ex-Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, CAR, is sentenced to death while in exile in France. |
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25 |
1918 |
Birth of Anwar el-Sadat, Egyptian premier. (Died 6 October, 1981) |
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25 |
1979 |
Major restoration project for the sphinx starts in Egypt. |
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26 |
1901 |
Uganda railroad from Mombassa to Lake Victoria is completed. |
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26 |
1915 |
The German gunboat, the Kingani, is captured by the British on Lake Tanganyika. It is removed by portage through the jungle of the Belgian Congo. |
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26 |
1964 |
American Max Conrad sets a new world non-stop-flight record with his 7,878 mile journey from Cape Town, south Africa, to St Petersburg, Florida. |
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26 |
1975 |
Cariango, Angola is taken by Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, (MPLA, Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) guerrillas. |
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27 |
1956 |
5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egypt following the Tripartite Invasion. |
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27 |
1960 |
France detonates its third atomic device in the Sahara. |
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28 |
1903 |
French Congo is split into Ubangi-Shari, Chad, Gabon, and Middle Congo. |
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28 |
1948 |
Egyptian premier, Mahmoud Fatimy, is assassinated by a member of Al Ikhwan al Muslimun (the Muslim Brotherhood). |
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28 |
1958 |
Patrice Emery Lumumba, head of the Congolese National Movement, declares that "independence is a right, not a privilege." |
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29 |
1930 |
Tombs of the third dynasty Egyptian kings are excavated at Ur. |
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29 |
1952 |
A coelacanth, once thought to have been extinct for 75 million years, is caught off the Comoros and sent to scientists in South Africa. |
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29 |
1992 |
President Daniel Torotich arap Moi wins the first multi-party elections held in Kenya for 26 years. |
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