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馃嚞馃嚩 President's Day in Equatorial Guinea
Birthday of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Date in Equatorial Guinea
June 5
Instituted1979
Celebrates the birthday of Equatorial Guinea's president
Public life in Equatorial Guinea
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
On this day in African history
- 1873 Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain. 路 Tanzania
- 1879 The Zungeni Mountain skirmish took place between British and Zulu forces during the second invasion of the Zulu Kingdom. 路 South Africa
- 1879 The Zungeni Mountain skirmish occurs between British and Zulu forces during the second invasion of the Zulu Kingdom. 路 South Africa
- 1963 Abb茅 Fulbert Youlou faces mounting criticism after Guinean President Ahmed S茅kou Tour茅 condemns elite excess and corruption during a state visit to Br... 路 Republic of the Congo
- 1977 Wangari Maathai launches the Green Belt Movement with its first tree planting on World Environment Day 路 Kenya
- 1983 President Gaafar Nimeiry unilaterally abolishes the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region, dismantling the constitutional guarantees of the 1972 treaty. 路 Sudan
In Equatorial Guinea, around 1979
- 1979 Francisco Mac铆as Nguema is captured in the jungle near the R铆o Muni border after burning much of the national currency reserve. 路 Equatorial Guinea
- 1979 The trial of Francisco Mac铆as Nguema and nine co-defendants opens at the Cine Marfil in Malabo before a special tribunal of three military officers an... 路 Equatorial Guinea
- 1979 Lt-Col Teodoro Obiang Nguema mounts a coup d'茅tat against his uncle in Equatorial Guinea. 路 Equatorial Guinea