Commemoration of dock workers massacre
Commemorates the massacre of more than 25 striking dock workers in 1953
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Pidjiguiti Day
Commemoration of dock workers massacre
On this day in African history
- 1960 Niger attains independence from France. · Niger
- 1979 Lt-Col Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea mounts a coup d’état against his uncle, Marcias Nguema. · Equatorial Guinea
- 1981 Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
- 1992 A 48-hour strike begins in South Africa as part of a week of mass action aimed at forcing an immediate transition from white minority rule under apart...
- 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre takes place in Algeria.
- 2005 A military coup ends a 21 year-rule of Mauritania’s President Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya ends while he is away at the funeral of Saudi Arabia’s King... · Mauritania