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.

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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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