The Fall of Kampala was a battle during the Uganda–Tanzania War in
April 1979, in which the combined forces of Tanzania and the Uganda
National Liberation Front (UNLF) attacked and captured the Ugandan
capital, Kampala. Tanzanian forces were repulsing an invasion launched
by Ugandan President Idi Amin (pictured). After routing the Ugandans and
their Libyan allies in Entebbe, the Tanzanians moved on Kampala. They
entered the city with UNLF forces on 10 April, facing minimal resistance
but hampered by their lack of maps. The fall of the city was announced
the next day. The Tanzanians cleared out the remaining pockets of
opposition, while jubilant civilians celebrated through indiscriminate,
destructive looting. Amin was deposed, his forces were scattered, and a
new government was installed. The battle marked the first time in the
modern history of the continent that an African state seized the capital
of another African country and deposed its government.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Kampala>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1858:
Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in
London, was cast after the original bell cracked during testing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ben>
1925:
The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first
published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby>
1959:
Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, wedded
Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Michiko>
2009:
Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced that he had
suspended the constitution and assumed all governance in the country
after it was ruled that the government of Prime Minister Frank
Bainimarama was illegal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fijian_constitutional_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deem:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to
sentence.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
4. (transitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a
conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs;
to account.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; to
decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
6. (intransitive) To have or hold as an opinion; to judge; to think.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deem>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is … no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a
fancied exemption from all prejudice.
--William Hazlitt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt>