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🇬🇶 Freedom Day in Equatorial Guinea
Commemoration of 1979 coup d'état
Date in Equatorial Guinea
August 3
Instituted1979
Marks the date when Teodoro Obiang deposed dictator Macías Nguema
Public life in Equatorial Guinea
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
On this day in Equatorial Guinea's history
In Equatorial Guinea, around 1979
- 1979 Francisco Macías Nguema is captured in the jungle near the Río Muni border after burning much of the national currency reserve. · Equatorial Guinea
- 1979 The trial of Francisco Macías Nguema and nine co-defendants opens at the Cine Marfil in Malabo before a special tribunal of three military officers an... · Equatorial Guinea
- 1979 Lt-Col Teodoro Obiang Nguema mounts a coup d'état against his uncle in Equatorial Guinea. · Equatorial Guinea