Saturday. September 7, 1974. Independence for Mozambique.

Portugal and FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) recognized independence for Mozambique, with it to formally occur on June 25, 1975.  The negotiations took place in Zambia.

FRELIMO, a far left wing political party that was formally Communist, has governed the country continually since that time.  It has evolved into a democratic socialist party.

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Wednesday, September 4, 1974. Recognizing East Germany.

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Tuesday, April 1, 1924. Sentencing coup plotters.

White House, April 1, 1924.

Adolf Hitler, Ernst Pöhner, Hermann Kriebel and Friedrich Webe were sentenced to five years for his attempted overthrow of the German government.  Erich Ludendorff was acquitted.

Hitler was released from incarceration in December, giving the world a sometimes unheeded lesson about the failure to treat coups seriously.

Northern Rhodesia, which is now Zambia, became a British protectorate, its status as a private colony administered by the British South Africa Company having ended.

The Royal Canadian Air Force received royal assent from King George V, having previously been the Canadian Air Force.

Calvin Coolidge gave a press conference, as he very frequently did.  Replacing Daughter was a major topic in it.

The National Guard was still in the process of re-forming, literary, following Wilson's haphazard discharging of the conscripted Guard, which came about due to an odd process itself, following World War One.  We've dealt with that elsewhere. The Wyoming National Guard (it was all the Army National Guard at the time) was being reformed as cavalry, rather than infantry, as it had been before the war, and had, by that time, taken on its new unit designation of the 115th Cavalry Regiment.

As part of that process, the Guard now had a newspaper.

The paper is interesting as it demonstrated the early organization of the 115th, with the Headquarters Troop being located in Laramie.

This from Reddit's 100 Years Ago sub, the Radio News was correctly predicting medicine, and television, and maybe the Internet, of the future.

Frank Capone, age 28, was shot by Chicago police in a gun battle.  He was the older brother of Al Capone.

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Monday, March 31, 1924. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (actually III) and the Teapot Dome Affair, Making Working Girls Homeless, and the Start of the Fishing Season.

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Wednesday, September 11, 1923. The British Empire in Southern Africa.

Southern Rhodesia became a British colony when the British government took it over from the British South Africa Company due to a 1922 referendum.  Prior to that time, it had been informally been known as Zambesia, based on the Zambezi River. It would form a government on October 1 and would retain its status, sort of, as a British colony until 1964.  

Flag of Southern Rhodesia.

Southern Rhodesia, massively British in terms of its colonial character, saw itself in that fashion, and its white residents had been highly supportive of World War One.  They would be again of World War Two.

Flag of Northern Rhodesia.

In 1953, it was confederated by the British with Northern Rhodesia, which had a larger landmass.  In the 1950s, it began to fall apart with the rise of African nationalism.  Northern Rhodesia became independent and changed its name to Zambia in 1964, interestingly changing its name during the course of the Olympics, and therefore entering the games with one name and exiting it with another.

Flag of Zambia.

When Northern Rhodesia became independent, with the cooperation of the British government, it struck fear into Southern Rhodesian whites, and the country, which was controlled by them, issued its Unilateral Declaration of Independence as Rhodesia in 1965.  The winds of change already well set in, Rhodesia, while it had cooperation from various countries, was unrecognized by any.  It fought an increasingly losing battle against African nationalist forces in the 60s and 70s, and returned to British colonial status brief in 1979, before becoming the current state of Zimbabwe.

Rhodesian flag.

Unfortunately, since independence its history has not been a happy one, as it fell to one party rule under Robert Mugabe, something it only recently overcame.  Zambia, spared a post-colonial war, has fared better, and indeed uniquely for a post colonia African nation, had an Acting President in recent memory who was of European (Scottish) descent.

Finnair, the Finnish national airline, was incorporated as Aero O/Y.

The Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Traffic in Obscene Publications was signed in Geneva by members of the League of Nations. The anti pornography treaty is still in effect, accepted and amended by the United Nations, although a person would hardly know it.

Bulgaria arrested 2,500 Communist suspected of plotting an uprising.

Monday, January 1, 1973. Economic matters.

The United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark entered the European Economic Community.

The addition of the UK in particular would have global economic impacts, as it seriously undercut the economic arrangement of the British Commonwealth.

The EEC was the predecessor to the EU, which of course the UK left recently.

I can very dimly recall this news story from when I was a kid.

Exxon came into being with the merger of Standard Oil and Humble Oil.

The Rose Bowl was of course played, with the USC Trojans beating the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Zambia officially became a one party state.

Sergei Kourdakov, age 21, who had been a KGB officer who had been involved in raids on Christian communities, but then converted to Christianity as a result of the reading material he found in them, and then defected to Canada, was found dead from a gunshot wound in a ski resort hotel in Canada. The firearm was his own and the death was ruled accidental, but suspicions remain regarding it.