Day commemorating Amílcar Cabral
Commemorates the assassination of independence leader Amílcar Cabral in 1973
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Heroes Day
Day commemorating Amílcar Cabral
On this day in African history
- 1962 Cyrille Adoula orders the arrest of deputy prime minister Antoine Gizenga to eliminate the rival eastern counter-government. · Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1964 Oscar Kambona drives himself to the mutinous Colito Barracks to negotiate with soldiers of the Tanganyika Rifles, maintaining public order and coordin... · Tanzania
- 1971 Juvenalias Aooko meets MP Gideon Mutiso at Parliament Buildings and declares that a coup against the Kenyatta government carries divine approval. · Kenya
- 1986 Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Justin Lekhanya. · Lesotho
- 1991 Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.