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Sub-Saharan Africa 1962: Independence in East Africa

Tanganyika became independent of the UK in December 1961; it would merge with Zanzibar one... SEE MORE…

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Jewish kingdom under Herod Agrippa*

starts 1914

Pro-German Boer revolt in South Africa

ends 1967

Che Guevara’s guerrilla campaign in Bolivia

1942

Australia ratifies Statute of Westminster

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