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Settlers' Day
Commemorated the arrival of the 1820 British Settlers
Celebration date
September 3
Geographic reach
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On this day in African history
- 1969 Kofi Abrefa Busia assumes office as Prime Minister of Ghana, leading the Progress Party government into a difficult inheritance of inflation and exter... 路 Ghana
- 1969 Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa assumes the chairmanship of the newly created three-member Presidential Commission to oversee the transition to civilian rule. 路 Ghana
- 1978 An Air Rhodesia plane is shot down by the Zimbabwe People鈥檚 Revolutionary Army over Kariba. The crash survivors are found by guerillas, and massacred.... 路 Zimbabwe
- 1981 Mbiyu Koinange's intestate death sets off a decades-long legal battle over an estate of nearly 6,000 acres spanning Kiambu, Nairobi, Nakuru, and Momba... 路 Kenya
- 1987 President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza of Burundi is deposed in a bloodless military coup d'茅tat by Major Pierre Buyoya.
- 1987 Pierre Buyoya leads a bloodless military coup overthrowing President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza. 路 Burundi