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United Nations General Assembly issues 'Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples'.
Ethiopia's Adebe Bikila wins Olympic marathon
Tshombe declares Congo's Katanga province independent
Egypt's Aswan Dam project begins with Soviet help
69 black South Africans killed in Sharpeville Massacre
Chief Luthuli awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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First UN sanctions against South Africa
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Rhodesia declares UDI
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Bokassa seizes power in Central African Republic
Nigeria's first Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa killed
Seretse Khama became president of Botswana
South African Prime Minister Verwoerd assassinated
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Nyerere proclaims Arusha Declaration
Chris Barnard performs first human heart transplant
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Tom Mboya assassinated
Muammar Gadaffi deposes Libyan King Idris
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Idi Amin ousts Ugandan president Milton Obote
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Tazara Railway completed
Coup in Lisbon leads to end of Portuguese rule in Africa
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Angolan civil war starts
First Lome Convention signed
Israel recognises status of Ethiopia's Falashas as Jews
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Haile Selassie murdered
16th June Soweto students begin protests
Ebola virus first identified
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Last case of smallpox reported
Steve Biko dies after torture in prison
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Tribute paid to Jomo Kenyatta
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Equatorial Guinea president Francisco Marcias Nguema executed
Olusegun Obasanjo hands over to civilian rule in Nigeria
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Leopold Senghor retires as Senegal president
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat assassinated by Islamic militants
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AIDS identified as caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus
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Gas from Lake Nyos kills 17 hundred people in Cameroon
Mystery surrounds air crash in which Mozambican president Samora Machel killed
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Cold War ends with the unravelling of the former Soviet Bloc
F. W. de Klerk succeeds P.W. Botha as SA president and begins dismantling apartheid
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Nelson Mandela released from prison
Namibia gains independence from South Africa
Kenyan foreign affairs minister Robert Ouko murdered
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Kenneth Kaunda succeeded by Frederick Chiluba
Siad Barre regime in Somalia ousted
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