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Pidjiguiti Day
Commemoration of dock workers massacre
Celebration date
August 3
Geographic reach
1 country
Commemorates the massacre of more than 25 striking dock workers in 1953
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On this day in African history
- 1889 An Anglo-Egyptian army defeats a Mahdist-Sudanese army at the Battle of Toski. · Sudan
- 1940 World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland. · Somalia
- 1959 Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people. · Guinea-Bissau
- 1960 Niger attains independence from France. · Niger
- 1979 Lt-Col Teodoro Obiang Nguema mounts a coup d'état against his uncle in Equatorial Guinea. · Equatorial Guinea
- 1981 Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi. · Senegal