1908 – US & Great Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
[Today in History] January 22nd
CONGO
1992 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire’s national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government’s resignation.
[Today in History] January 20th
CONGO
1960 – Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo
BIRTHDAYS
1984 – Zack Mwekassa, boxer, is born in Kinshasa
[Today in History] January 17th
CONGO
1961 – Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo’s Lumumba
1977 – Mobutu visits Belgium
2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
DEATHS
1961 – Patrice Lumumba is assassinated in
[Today in History] January 16th
2001 – Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
[Today in History] January 13th
1959 – King Baudouin promises Belgian Congo independence
[Today in History] January 12th
1989 – Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
[Today in History] January 8th
GLOBAL
1454 – Pope Nicholas V to King Afonso V of Portugal write the Romanus Pontifex which seals the origin of slavery as it defines all things discovered on new lands as their properties which will trigger the decline of Native American civilizations and international trade between Africa, Americas and Europe based on slavery.
[Today in History] January 1st
1997 – The Republic of Zaïre officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Zaïre.
[Today in History] December 31st
1962 – United Nations forces State of Katanga to cease fire, surrender and re-intergrate the Republic of Congo
BIRTHDAYS
1985 – Mulota Patou Kabangu, football player, is born in Mbuji-Mayi, Kasayi
[Today in History] December 30th
CONGO
2013 – an organized group, led by Joseph Mukungubila Mutombo a self-proclaimed prophet, attacked simultaneously the National TV station RTNC and Njili Airport in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Kindu
BIRTHDAYS
1955 – Dindo Yogo, Congolese musician (d. 2000)
1956 – Samba wa Mbimba N’zingo Nuni Masi Ndo Mbasi aka Chéri Samba, internationally recognized painter, is born in Kinto M’Vuila
1980 – Didier Ilunga-Mbenga, Double NBA champion with the L.A. Lakers, is born in Kinshasa
[Today in History] December 29th
1960 – Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, founder and leader of Union of Congolese Patriots and first war criminal convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), is born in Djiba, Ituri Province.
[Today in History] December 27th
1884 – Netherlands recognizes King Leopold II’s Congo Free State
1961 – Belgium & Congo resume diplomatic relations
[Today in History] December 25th
1996 – Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi forces take control of 80,000km2 of congolese territory.
[Today in History] December 19th
1884 – Italy recognizes King Leopold II’s Congo Free State
BIRTHDAYS
1987 – Cédric Baseya, football player, is born in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
[Today in History] December 17th
2002 – Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
DEATHS
1891 – Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze (Bayeke) Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian funded expedition
[Today in History] December 16th
1884 – Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II’s Congo Free State
[Today in History] December 15th
CONGO
2014 – Wreckage on Tanganyika Lake, Katanga shore, causes 253 survivors and 129 missing
[Today in History] December 14th
1882 – Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo
BIRTHDAYS
1932 – Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, politician and former prime minister, is born in Kananga, West Kasaï Province
[Today in History] December 12th
1903 – Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
BIRTHDAYS
1980 – Tiko Tshyniama Tshiolola, football player, is born in Kinshasa
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