1998 – A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40 people.
[Today in History] October 5th
2018 – Denis Mukwege, the internationally famous gynecologist, wins Nobel Peace Prize.
[Today in History] October 3rd
CONGO
1890 – Capt. Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma, Congo
1948 – Columbia U reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo
[Today in History] September 29th
CONGO
1881 – Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with one of the Congolese monarch
1962 – UNIMO (UNIon de MOngo) is founded, directed by Bomboka Ndjoku and its headquarters located at Coquilhatville (Mbandaka).
[Today in History] September 28th
BIRTHS
1983 – Ardiles-Waku Menga, footballer evolving in Germany, is born in Kinshasa
DEATHS
1994 – Abeti Masikini dies of cervical cancer in Villejuif, France.
[Today in History] September 22nd
CONGO
2014 – Shipwreck on Lwanga Tshimu river, near Kamako, Western Kasayi around 30 missing and 4 survivors.
BIRTHDAYS
1928 – Justin-Marie Bomboko Lokumba Is Elenge (Mongo), future Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1960 under Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba
1988 – Joel Omari Tshibamba, football player, is born in Kinshasa
[Today in History] September 19th
CONGO
1903 – King Leopold II denies Belgian cruelty in Congo
[Today in History] September 14th
CONGO
1876 – Leopold II closes Congo-conference
1960 – Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo
[Today in History] September 13th
CONGO
1961 – Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
[Today in History] September 12th
CONGO
1876 – King Leopold II opens Congo conference
[Today in History] September 10th
CONGO
2006 – Gary Kikaya gets the silver medal at the world championship in Stuttgart, Germany and set the African record on 400m at 44’10”. The record fell 10 years later in 2016, beaten by Wayde Van Niekerk from South Africa.
[Today in History] September 5th
1960 – President Kasa-Vubu fires premier Patrice Lumumba
[Today in History] August 22nd
GLOBAL
1964 – Founded in May 1963 by Henry Dunant (Switzerland) the First International Comity of Red Cross reunites 16 countries who sign the first Geneva convention. Dunant will receive the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1901. Red Cross is now represented in 186 countries around the globe including DRC.
[Today in History] August 21st
CONGO
2012 – 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus
GLOBAL
1944 – From August 21, 1944 through to October 7, 1944 – Dumbarton Oaks Conference or more formally, the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization, was an international conference at which the United Nations was formulated and negotiated among international leaders.
[Today in History] August 20th
CONGO
1908 – Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
[Today in History] August 14th
CONGO
1967 – Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered
[Today in History] August 13th
CONGO
1881 – Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with one of the Congolese monarch
2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
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