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National Unification Day
Promotes unity between different population groups
Celebration date
May 14
Geographic reach
1 country
Established to improve relations between descendants of American slaves and indigenous populations
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What this holiday commemorates
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... 路 Tunisia
- 1947 Ahmed S茅kou Tour茅 co-founds the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) as the territorial branch of the RDA. 路 Guinea
- 1951 South Africa's Parliament votes to remove Coloured people from the voters roll. 路 South Africa
- 1953 Riots in Kano kill 32 during independence movement tensions in Nigeria. 路 Nigeria
- 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... 路 United States