Military Forces Day
Honors the national military forces
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Army Day
Military Forces Day
On this day in African history
- 1869 The Suez Canal, an artificial sea-level waterway linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, opens in Egypt.
- 1993 General Sani Abacha of Nigeria ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.
- 1997 Six militants stage the Luxor massacre in Egypt, killing 62 people outside the Temple of Hatshepsut.
- 2015 Residents of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, protest impassable streets due to poor maintenance by planting banana trees in giant potholes.
- 2021 Nigerian superstar singer Davido urged friends and family on social media to send one million naira each to prove their love. Upon receiving 201 milli...