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🇿🇲 Africa Freedom Day in Zambia
Celebration of African unity and freedom
Date in Zambia
May 25
Commemorates the founding of the Organization of African Unity
Public life in Zambia
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
On this day in African history
- ? Africa Day - Commemorates the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU), in 1963.
- ? President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone is overthrown in a military coup. · Sierra Leone
- ? A referendum in Egypt approves an amendment to the constitution to allow multiparty presidential elections. · Egypt
- 1935 Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor... · United States
- 1961 British colonial authorities release Fred Kubai from detention and begin lifting restriction orders on other Kapenguria detainees. · Kenya
- 1963 Algeria and Tunisia announced the resumption of full diplomatic relations.