Commemoration of 1979 coup d'état
Marks the date when Teodoro Obiang deposed dictator Macías Nguema
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Freedom Day
Commemoration of 1979 coup d'état
What this holiday commemorates
- ? Freedom Day(South Africa) -Commemorates the first post-apartheid elections. · South Africa
- 1979 Lt-Col Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea mounts a coup d’état against his uncle, Marcias Nguema. · Equatorial Guinea
- 1994 South Africa introduced the new flag. · South Africa
- 1994 South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution co... · South Africa
- 1994 Freedom Day commemorates South Africa's first post-apartheid elections. · South Africa
On this day in African history
- 1960 Niger attains independence from France. · Niger
- 1981 Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
- 1992 A 48-hour strike begins in South Africa as part of a week of mass action aimed at forcing an immediate transition from white minority rule under apart...
- 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre takes place in Algeria.
- 2005 A military coup ends a 21 year-rule of Mauritania’s President Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya ends while he is away at the funeral of Saudi Arabia’s King... · Mauritania