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2011 – At least 127 people were killed in the Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952, a Boeing 727-100 (9Q-COP), as it was attempting to land during bad weather at Bangoka International Airport in Kisangani, Orientale Province

April 24, 2015June 5, 2016 Clarisse Kale/Today In History

[Today in History] April 24th

CONGO

1990 – Forced by the circumstances, Mobutu allows multipartism.

papawemba

2016 – Papa Wemba passes away at age 67

April 3, 2015March 13, 2015 Clarisse Kale/Today In History, Pà Kàsaayì|About Kasayi, Pà Kongo|About Congo, Today In History

[Today in History] April 3rd

CONGO

2007 – Over 20 illegal miners die in the collapsing of Miba Mine in Mbuji-Mayi.

BIRTHDAYS

1978 – Serge Movili Mazami aka Celeo Scram, singer songwriter, is born in Kinshasa

March 22, 2015April 2, 2016 Clarisse Kale/Today In History, Pà Kongo|About Congo

[Today in History] March 22nd

CONGO

2014 – 251 shipwreck victims, 109 drowned, 101 missing and only 41 survived following the shipwreck of Congolese refugees returning to Congo, on Lac Albert. 3 days of mourning.

GLOBAL

2016 – 31 dead and 340 wounded (bilan provisoire) in terrorist attacks that hit Belgium, one in Zaventem airport and one in Maelbeek metro station where at least two Congolese, Yves Ciyombo and Sabrina Fazal, died.

March 20, 2015March 25, 2016 Clarisse Kale/Today In History, Pà Kongo|About Congo

[Today in History] March 20th

DEATHS

1916 – Ota Benga, a Mbuti pygmy (b. 1884). After being exposed in human zoo in Bronx, he was freed but got no hope to return to his homeland At the age of 32, he built a ceremonial fire, chipped off the caps on his teeth, and shot himself in the heart with a stolen pistole

March 13, 2015March 20, 2016 Clarisse Kale/Today In History, Pà Kongo|About Congo

[Today in History] March 13th

1967 – Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tshombe to death

February 26, 2015January 5, 2015 Clarisse Kale/Today In History, Pà Kongo|About Congo

[Today in History] February 26th

1884 – British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II

1885 – Congress of Berlin gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to Great Britain

February 16, 2015March 1, 2017 Clarisse Kale/Today In History, Pà Kongo|About Congo

[Today in History] February 16th

CONGO

1992 – “La marche pacifique des chrétiens” (The pacific march of the Christians), dozens of thousands of people requesting the National Conference to resume, is repressed in blood. The government sends the army and dozens of people are killed.