Showing posts with label Guinea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guinea. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Tuesday, March 5, 1974. Portugal decides to stay.

Portugese troops in Mozambique.  By Joaquim Coelho, author from Espaço Etéreo, a compilation of texts and pictures from people involved in the war. Permission is granted here, and personal e-mails between me (Nuno) and Joaquim (backed up for reference). - The copyright holder of this work allows anyone to use it for any purpose including unrestricted redistribution, commercial use, and modification.Please check the source to verify that this is correct. In particular, note that publication on the Internet, like publication by any other means, does not in itself imply permission to redistribute. Files without valid permission should be tagged with {{subst:npd}}.Usage notes:If the work requires attribution, use {{Attribution}} instead.If this is your own work, please use {{Cc-zero}} instead., Copyrighted free use, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=685173

Portuguese Prime Minister Marcello Caetano informed the Portuguese National Assembly that Portuguese Guinea, Angola and Mozambique would retain their colonial status in spite of ongoing guerilla wars.  He stated that elections "would be inappropriate for the African mentality."

Ethiopian Emperor and absolute monarch Haile Selassie pledged democratic reforms in an unprecedented national address on radio and television.

Eva Mendes was born in Miami.

Last prior:

Monday, March 4, 1974. Suez.

Friday, January 20, 2023

Saturday, January 20 1973. Second Nixon Inauguration.


President Nixon was inaugurated for the second time.

Amilcar Cabral, leader of the Guinea independence movement, was assassinated.

The Soviets revealed the existence of its education tax on emigrants, which taxed exodus, based on the theory that the state had educated them and it was recouping its loss.

Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d'Udekem d'Acoz, Queen Consort of Belgium, was born.