CONGO
2016 – DRCongo wins Chan 2016 defeating Mali 3-0. It’s the second time they win this championship, the first occurence being 2009
[Today in History] January 30th
CONGO
2016 – DRC beats Rwanda 2-1 in extra time, in a very political soccer game during the ChAN quarter finals.
[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
[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 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] August 8th
CONGO
1880 – First catholic missionary school is founded in Boma
1960 – South Kasaï secedes from the Congo.
BIRTHDAYS
1958 – Denis Mukengere Mukwege, 2013 Nobel Price Nominee, is born in Bukavu, South-Kivu.
1994 – Chancel Mbemba Mangulu, football player, is born in Congo
[Today in History] June 25th
CONGO
1991 – On his supposedly 25th birthday, Dikembe Mutombo is drafted on the 4th round by the NBA Denver Nuggets
2015 – Emmanuel Mudiayi is drafted on the 7th round by the NBA Denver Nuggets.
BIRTHDAYS
1966 – Jean-Jacques Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba wa Mutombo, former NBA player, is born in Kinshasa. There is a doubt about his birth year though.
[Today in History] June 14th
CONGO
1960 – South Kasaï (from Bakwanga to Mwene-Ditu) officially declares its independence from Belgium, weeks before the independence of Congo.
[Today in History] June 1st
BIRTHDAYS
1982 – Ngalula Mbuyi aka Junior, football player, is born in Kinshasa
DEATHS
1966 – Évariste Kimba Mutombo, Prime Minister of Congo and opposant to Mobutu, is executed in Kinshasa
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