4 February 1961 was the beginning of the Angolan War of Independence, called the “Dia do Início da Luta Armada de Libertação Nacional” (Day of the Beginning of the National…
On 27 January 1961, the Chief of the apartheid South African Defence Force (SADF), Commandant General Rudolph Hiemstra, announced the successful conclusion of Anglo-South African talks on aspects of the…
On 26 January 1963, Joe Gqabi was arrested with nine fellow members who had undergone military training in Ethiopia and were deported back to South Africa after being captured in…
On 26 January 1963, Detective Inspector Roderick Ivy of the Southern Rhodesia’s British South Africa Police (BSAP) headed to Bulawayo Central Railway Station on information received from the Northern Rhodesia…
“If it is true that a revolution can fail even though it is based on perfectly conceived theories – nobody has yet made a successful revolution without a revolutionary theory.”…
On the evening of 18 January 1963, Justice Gizenga Mpanza, Shadrack Maphumulo and Michael Mvula were at the back of the Argyle Hotel on Clarke Street, Durban, with a carrier…
Patrice Lumumba was sentenced to six months in prison. The trial’s start date of 18 January 1960 was the first day of the Congolese Round Table Conference in Brussels, intended…
On the night of 17 January 1961, between 21:40 and 21:43, Patrice Émery Lumumba, the first and only elected Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, was put in a line-up…
On 14 January 1953, Josip Broz Tito became the president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, thus becoming the Head of State of that country, concurrently as President of…
(In memory of the Vietnamese people and combatants who were maimed and murdered by American forces during the launch of US Operation Chopper, 12 January 1962) The Vietnamese people’s war…