Celebrated across Africa on this day
1Historical Events
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Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after declaring war against Germany and Japan. -
University of Dakar, renamed Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in 1987 after the Senegalese scientist and historian, is founded in Senegal. -
Joseph Murumbi's political mentor Pio Gama Pinto assassinated, demonstrating to Murumbi that the post-colonial administration was prepared to use violence to eliminate progressive critics. -
Ghana’s Independence hero and first president, Kwame Nkrumah, is ousted in a coup d’état by the Ghana army joined by police. -
Colonel Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka and Major Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa execute Operation Cold Chop, overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah and installing the National Liberation Council under Lieutenant General Joseph Arthur Ankrah.
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Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa commands the assault on the State Broadcasting House in Accra during Operation Cold Chop, the coup that overthrows President Kwame Nkrumah.
Famous Births
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Born in Tangier, Morocco -
Abd al-Hafid, former Sultan of Morocco, is born in Fes, Morocco. -
Ali Mazrui, a Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic, is born in Mombasa, Kenya. -
Born in Mombasa
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Bingu wa Mutharika, the third President of Malawi, is born in Kamoto, Malawi. -
Manuel de Novas, a Cabo Verdean musician and poet, is born in Penha da França, Santo Antão Island, Cabo Verde. -
Born in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo -
Daniel Kaluuya, a Ugandan-British actor, is born in London, England.
Famous Deaths
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first President of Liberia, dies in Monrovia, Liberia.
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1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after declaring war against Germany and Japan.