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🇺🇬 Martyrs' Day in Uganda
Commemoration of the Batepá Massacre
Date in Uganda
June 3
Instituted1887
Honors Christian converts killed for their faith in the 1880s.
Commemorates the victims of the 1953 Batepá massacre during Portuguese colonial rule
How Martyrs' Day is observed in Uganda
Historical significance
Commemorates the execution of 45 Christian converts.
Public life in Uganda
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
On this day in African history
- 1975 J. M. Kariuki's assassination inquiry reaches Parliament as the Mwangale Committee implicates senior Kenyan security officials. · Kenya
- 1992 Australian courts recognize Aboriginal land rights in Mabo v Queensland, overturning the colonial doctrine of terra nullius. · Australia
- 2019 Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in prote... · Sudan
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