| Week starting Monday 7 April |
|
| Date |
Year |
Event
|
|
| 7 |
1952 |
Spain demands control of the International Zone (Tangier) of Morocco. |
| 7 |
1956 |
Franco signs the Moroccan accord, thereby giving independence to Spanish Morocco (Marruecos). |
| 7 |
1960 |
Following the Sharpeville Massacre
and the protest at Langa (21 March 1960), roughly 1,500 blacks are detained by the South African police in
Cape Town. |
|
| 8 |
1960 |
The Unlawful Organisations Act (1960) declared both the ANC and PAC illegal in South
Africa. |
| 8 |
1992 |
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasir Arafat survives a plane crash in
Libya. |
|
| 9 |
1926 |
John Davidson Rockerfeller, US philanthropist, donates $10 million towards the building of
a museum in Cairo, Egypt. |
| 9 |
1960 |
South African president Hendrik Verwoerd is wounded in an attempted assassination by a
disgruntled white farmer, David Pratt, at the Rand Easter Show. |
|
| 10 |
1938 |
Leaders of the Neo-Destour (New Constitutional) Party, the Tunisian nationalist movement,
are arrested after riots in Tunis. |
| 10 |
1993 |
Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani is
assassinated in South Africa. |
|
| 11 |
1926 |
Mussolini is greeted with royal honours when he lands in Africa. |
| 11 |
1954 |
General China, the operation undertaken by British authorities against the Mau Mau in
Kenya, has failed. |
|
| 12 |
1975 |
French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is the first to visit Algeria since independence
was achieved in 1962. |
| 12 |
1993 |
Thousands of blacks take to the streets to protest the assassination of Chris Hani amid calls for an armed uprising. |
|
| 13 |
1964 |
Ian Douglas Smith is named prime minister of Rhodesia by the 'white supremacist' Rhodesian
Front party. |
| 13 |
1979 |
An attempt is made to kill Zambian guerrilla leader Joshua Nkomo by Rhodesian forces. |
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