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Zanzibar Revolution Day
End of the Sultanate of Zanzibar
Celebration date
January 12
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1 country
Commemorates the end of Sultanate rule in 1964.
Marks the overthrow of the Sultanate of Zanzibar and the establishment of the People's Republic of Zanzibar
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On this day in African history
- 1872 Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- 1960 The eight-year-old State of Emergency in Kenya by the British ends.
- 1970 Biafra surrenders, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
- 1992 A new constitution, providing freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
- 1994 France and the International Monetary Fund impose a fifty percent devaluation of the CFA franc across fourteen African member nations. · Senegal