| Week starting Monday 3 February |
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| Date |
Year |
Event
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| 3 |
1904 |
Brigadier-General Frederick Lugard's West African Frontier Force breach the 50 foot high
walls of Great Kano and capture the city, one of the main centres of the Sokoto Caliphate. |
| 3 |
1925 |
Anthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart's announcement of the discovery of the missing link hits
the news four days before its official publication in Nature. |
| 3 |
1960 |
"The wind of change is blowing through this continent and, whether we like it or
not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact." Harold Macmillan, British Prime
Minister, addressing the South African Parliament in Cape Town. |
| 3 |
1961 |
Fierce fighting erupts between pro-Lumumba troops and UN forces in the Congo. |
| 3 |
1985 |
Desmond Mpilo Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Archbishop of Johannesburg. |
|
| 4 |
1911 |
Death of Pieter Arnoldus Cronje, Boer general responsible for victories at Modder River and
Magersfontein. |
| 4 |
1967 |
Crew of the US carrier FDR are refused leave in South Africa because of the apartheid laws. |
|
| 5 |
1956 |
Nine Mau Mau prisoners, serving life sentences, escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria. |
| 5 |
1964 |
In protest against anti-US campaigns in Ghana, the US recalls its ambassador. |
| 5 |
1977 |
The Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, FREMLO (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique),
announces its plans to turn Mozambique into a Marxist state. |
|
| 6 |
1970 |
Israelis sink a 700 ton Egyptian minelayer in the Gulf of Suez in reprisal for the sinking
of two Israeli ships at Elath. |
| 6 |
1978 |
Chad breaks links to Libya in protest to their support of Muslim guerrillas currently
fighting in northern Chad. |
| 6 |
1987 |
Ten French aid workers, kidnapped 13 days earlier from a Somali refugee camp, are handed
over to Ethiopian authorities by Somali rebels. |
|
| 7 |
1910 |
Britain, Germany and Belgium agree on the borders of Congo, Uganda and German East Africa. |
| 7 |
1961 |
Joseph Kasavubu is appointed president of a UN supported confederation of independent
Congolese states. |
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| 8 |
1917 |
Senussi campaign in Egypt and Sudan is successfully ended by the British. |
| 8 |
1952 |
Elizabeth is informed by her husband Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, that she has become
Queen of England, whilst walking in the grounds of the Treetops Hotel, Kenya. |
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| 9 |
1916 |
General Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the
East African campaign of World War I. |
| 9 |
1927 |
Spain and France begin talks on their respective 'sphere of influence' in Morocco. |
| 9 |
1992 |
After two days of fighting between Islamic fundamentalists and security forces in Algeria,
a state of emergency is declared. |
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