Commemorated the arrival of the 1820 British Settlers
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Settlers' Day
Commemorated the arrival of the 1820 British Settlers
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... · Ghana
- 1969 Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa assumes the chairmanship of the newly created three-member Presidential Commission to oversee the transition to civilian rule. · Ghana
- 1978 An Air Rhodesia plane is shot down by the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army over Kariba. The crash survivors are found by guerillas, and massacred.... · 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... · Kenya
- 1987 President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza of Burundi is deposed in a bloodless military coup d'état by Major Pierre Buyoya.