| Week starting Monday 14 April |
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| Date |
Year |
Event
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|
| 14 |
1961 |
Seven hundred political prisoners are released in Algeria on the orders of the French
president, General Charles de Gaulle. |
| 14 |
1986 |
Desmond Tutu is selected to be the archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church
in South Africa. |
|
| 15 |
1936 |
Italian forces occupy Abyssinian town of Dessye, having advanced 125 miles in the last five
days. |
| 15 |
1996 |
Truth and Reconciliation Commission opens in South Africa. |
|
| 16 |
1950 |
Seretse Khama, rightful heir to the Ngwato chieftaincy in Bechuanaland (Botswana) is
reunited with his British wife in England. |
| 16 |
1988 |
The military commander of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is assassinated in
Tunisia, Israeli gunmen are blamed. |
|
| 17 |
1923 |
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, abolishes slavery. |
| 17 |
1963 |
United Arab Republic proclaimed by Egypt, Iraq, and Syria. |
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| 18 |
1961 |
In return for the release of Jomo Kenyetta, the Kenyan African National Union (ZANU) agrees
to take part in negotiations for governmental reform. |
| 18 |
1971 |
Libya joins the United Arab Republic (Egypt, Iraq, and Syria) to form a Federation of Arab
Republics. |
| 18 |
1980 |
Zimbabwe proclaimed an independent republic. Dr Cannan Sodindo Banana is inaugurated as
president, and Robert Gabriel Mugabe as prime minister. |
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| 19 |
1906 |
Bambatha Rebellion:
Over 7,000 British troops are called out to quell Zulu aggression in Natal. |
| 19 |
1915 |
WWI: West Africa
Combined Anglo-French forces take Mandera, Cameroon. |
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| 20 |
1911 |
France offers military support to Abd al Hafid, Sultan of Morocco, to suppress a revolt. |
| 20 |
1979 |
Egyptian president Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat gets an overwhelming majority in a vote for
peace treaty with Israel. |
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