Libya’s 1969 Constitution
December 11, 1969, was a pivotal day in Libya’s history. It wasn’t the usual political shuffling but the formal birth of a new nation. After overthrowing King Idris a few months earlier in a bloodless coup, Muammar Gadda...
Historical Events
Events
1958 - Burkina Faso achieves self-governance as the Republic of Upper Volta.
1997 - Juto guerillas kill more than 270 Tutsi refugees from the DRCongo in Mudende, Rwanda.
1969 - Libya adopted its first post-monarchy constitution.
2007 - Two car bombs kill about 45 people in Algiers, Algeria.
2013 - Bubonic Plague Kills at least 20 People in a small Madagascan village.
2016 - A suicide bomber kills 25 and wounds 45 people at a chapel in Cairo, Egypt.
Births
1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian author, playwright, and screenwriter, is born.
1961 - Macky Sall, the eighth prime minister and fourth President of Senegal, is born.
1974 – Gete Wami, an Ethiopian runner, is born.
Deaths
2001 - Mainza Chona, the first Prime Minister of Zambia, dies.
2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, an Ivorian author and playwright, dies.
