Portal:Military history of Africa/Selected anniversaries/June
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1 June
- 1879 - Napoleon Eugene killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
2 June
- No military event recorded.
3 June
- No military event recorded.
4 June
- No military event recorded.
5 June
- 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- 1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
- 1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
- 1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.
6 June
- 1882 - The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
7 June
- No military event recorded.
8 June
- 1967 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
9 June
- No military event recorded.
10 June
- 1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
11 June
- No military event recorded.
12 June
- 1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers landed 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
- 1964 - South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison.
- 1987 - The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
- 1993 - Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola elected President of Nigeria in record turnout for Nigerian elections.
13 June
- No military event recorded.
14 June
- 1940 - Spain invade Tangier international zone.
15 June
- No military event recorded.
16 June
- 1976 - Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
- 1997 - Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
- 1999 - Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa.
17 June
- 1991 - Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
18 June
19 June
- No military event recorded.
20 June
- No military event recorded.
21 June
- 1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas
- 1942 - World War II: Tobruk, Libya falls to Italian and German forces.
22 June
- No military event recorded.
23 June
- 1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.
24 June
- 2004 - Habib Dodo, the general secretary of the Communist Youth of Côte d'Ivoire is assassinated by pro-government forces.
25 June
- 1975 - Mozambique achieves independence.
26 June
- 1960 - Former British Protectorate of Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence.
27 June
- 1976 - Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
- 1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti.
28 June
- 1976 - The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
29 June
- No militqry event recorded.
