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Rwagasore Day
Commemoration of Prince Louis Rwagasore
Celebration date
October 13
Geographic reach
1 country
Commemorates the assassination of Prince Louis Rwagasore, a national hero.
Honors Prince Louis Rwagasore, a nationalist hero assassinated in 1961
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On this day in African history
- 1978 Swaziland promulgates a new constitution banning political parties and opposition to the absolute monarch. 路 Eswatini
- 1981 One week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak is voted in as Egypt's president. 路 Egypt
- 1988 Named first Arabic-language winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 路 Egypt
- 2003 Hassan al-Turabi released from house arrest under a presidential pardon after nearly three years of isolation. 路 Sudan
- 2012 Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is accidentally shot at and injured by the military. 路 Mauritania
- 2017 Oliver Tambo honored posthumously as South African and Zambian leaders launch the Oliver Tambo Heritage House in Lusaka. 路 Zambia