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Events relating to africa
Defence minister Houari Boumédienne leads a coup to oust President Ben Bella in Algeria
Mobutu stages his second coup in the Congo and this time takes power as president
Ian Smith makes a unilateral declaration of Rhodesia's independence
Kwame Nkrumah, the founding father of Ghana, is toppled in a coup while away on a state visit to China
Jean-Bedel Bokassa takes power in a coup in the Central African Republic
UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, joins the fight for Angolan independence
Prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death in the South African parliament
Former chief Seretse Khama becomes the first president of an independent Botswana
The Ibo of eastern Nigeria claim independence for their region – as the republic of Biafra
A pre-emptive air strike by Israel destroys almost all Egypt's aircraft and launches the Six-Day War
Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Johnson, becomes the first African American member of the US Supreme Court
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, in Cape Town, transplants the heart of a young woman into a 55-year-old grocer, Louis Washkansky
Spanish Guinea becomes an independent republic as Equatorial Guinea, with Francisco Macias Nguema as president
The United Nations, with the approval of Britain as the colonial power, imposes economic sanctions on Rhodesia
Peter Nzube finds the oldest skull yet discovered in the Olduvai Gorge and names the specimen Twiggy, after the British fashion model of the time
At a congress in Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Idris I, king of Libya, is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Muammar al-Gaddafi
Paintings discovered on stone slabs in a cave in Namibia are dated to about 28,000 years ago
The breakaway province of Biafra surrenders after three years of devastating civil war in Nigeria
Nasser dies of a sudden heart attack and is succeeded as Egypt's president by Anwar el-Sadat
Idi Amin leads a successful coup against the president of Uganda, Milton Obote
Hip-hop originates as a dance style in New York among young African Americans
Mobutu gives the Congo a new name, Zaire, deriving from an African word for river
Libya's political bible is now the Green Book by Muammar al-Gaddafi
In an orgy of ethnic slaughter in Burundi, Tutsis klll some 100,000 Hutus
