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This day in #history 13/02
FEBRUARY 13TH

1976 – Gen Murtala R Muhammed was killed alongside his ADC and Col Ibrahim Taiwo

1976 – General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup

1566 – St Augustine, Florida founded

1668 – Treaty of Lisbon : Spain recognizes
Portugal

1689 – British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights

1920 – League of Nations recognizes perpetual
neutrality of Switzerland

1920 – Switzerland rejoins the League of Nations

1980 – Apollo Computer Inc incorporated

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1835 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , Founder of the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ( d. 1908 )

1933 – Paul Biya, president of Cameroon ( 1982- )

1997 – Michael Jackson Jr, son of Michael
Jackson

FAMOUS DEATHS

1976 – Gen Murtala R Muhammed was killed alongside his ADC and Col Ibrahim Taiwo

1976 – General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup

Gen Muritala Ramat Muhammed -photo credit googlepics

A picture of the car he was in when assassinated (below)

The car in which Gen. Muritala was assassinated

1995 – Abdelhafid Said, Algerian student leader,
murdered

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 25/06
JUNE 25TH

1920 – League of Nations places Internationall Court of Justice in Hague

1960 – Madagascar gains independence from France

1960 – Somaliland is granted independence by British government

1961 – Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)

1962 – Inonu government forms in Turkey

1962 – Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms

1964 – Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ)

1972 – Juan Peron elected president of Argentina

1975 – After a prolonged liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rulers, Mozambique becomes independent as People Republic of Mozambique.

1976 – The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting

1982 – South African President P.W. Botha issues a new Proclamation again placing Ingwavuma under government control

1991 – Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia

1999 – In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime; the nation’s murder rate is the third highest in the world and more than 49,000 cases of rape were reported in 1998

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1903 – George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], Bihar, British India, British writer (Animal Farm, 1984), (d. 1950)

1961 – Ricky Gervais, Reading England, actor and comedian (The Office)

1963 – George Michael [Panos], London, British rock vocalist (Wham-I Want Your Sex)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1792 – Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)

1876 – George Armstrong Custer, US General, dies at the Battle of Little Bighorn aged 36

1968 – Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43

1978 – Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered

1976 – Johnny Mercer, US songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66

1997 – Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer, dies of heart attack at 87

2009 – Michael Jackson, American recording artist, entertainer and King of Pop music (The Jackson 5, Thriller, Dangerous) dies of cardiac arrest at 50