Birthday of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda
Celebrates Malawi's first president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda
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Kamuzu Day
Birthday of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda
On this day in African history
- 1943 French General Henri Giraud deposes Moncef Bey under pretext of wartime collaboration, forcing the popular monarch into exile and installing Lamine Be... · Tunisia
- 1947 Ahmed Sékou Touré co-founds the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) as the territorial branch of the RDA. · Guinea
- 1951 South Africa's Parliament votes to remove Coloured people from the voters roll. · South Africa
- 1953 Riots in Kano kill 32 during independence movement tensions in Nigeria. · Nigeria
- 1960 Liberia declares May 14 as National Unification Day. · Liberia
- 1961 Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil righ... · United States