April 11 in history: UNLA troops overthrow Idi Amin

Iddi Amin

April 11 - TODAY IN HISTORY

1689 Apr 11, (OS) William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain. As part of their oaths, the new King William III and Queen Mary were required to swear that they would obey the laws of Parliament. At this time, the Bill of Rights was read to both William and Mary. "We thankfully accept what you have offered us," William replied, agreeing to be subject to law and to be guided in his actions by the decisions of Parliament.

1814 Apr 11, Napoleon Bonaparte (45) abdicated at Fontainebleau a 2nd time and was banished to the island of Elba, a small island in the Mediterranean, retaining the title of emperor and 400 volunteers to act as his guard. He was granted sovereignty over Elba and a pension from the French government.

1909 Apr 11, Tel Aviv began as a suburb of Jaffa. While Palestine was still under Ottoman rule, sixty-six Jewish families took possession of lots in Karm al-Jabali, on the northern outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa near the Mediterranean coast amidst dunes, vineyards, and orchards. There they established a “garden suburb” called Ahuzat Bayit (“Homestead”), which in 2010 was renamed Tel Aviv, or Hill of Spring

1912 Apr 11, RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY

1921 Apr 11, First sports broadcast on the radio takes place.

1945 Apr 11, The Americans liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Some 250,000 prisoners passed through the camp and 50,000 are known to have died there. From 1945 to 1950, occupying Soviet forces used the camp to hold political prisoners.

1963 Apr 11, John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty

UNLA troops led by Okello Lutwa captured Kampala, overthrew Amin

1979 Apr 11, Idi Amin was deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized full control of Kampala. There were several Ugandan exile forces, but the main one UNLA was led by Tito Okello and David Oyite Ojok as commanders. Amin escaped to Libya and settled into exile in Saudi Arabia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin)

2003 Apr 11, In Uganda hundreds of Pokot tribesmen from Kenya attacked villages in eastern Uganda, killing more than 30 people. Victims were members of the Sabiny tribe.

2002 Apr 11, In South Africa a white judge acquitted Dr. Wouter Basson (“Dr. Death”), former head of the chemical and biological weapons program, of 46 counts murder, fraud and drug dealing following a 2 ½ year trial.

2011 Apr 11, In Uganda Kizza Besigye, the top opposition politician was arrested, along with several members of parliament, during a march to protest high fuel and food prices. The police called it an illegal demonstration.

Source wikipedia; http://www.timelines.ws and http://www.historyorb.com

Uganda: Meeting Stars On the Agenda

 

Diego Maradona in South Africa 

17 JUNE 2010

New Vision (Kampala)

By Louis Jadwong (Sports Editor)

Pretoria, South Africa — The true football fan in Kampala must be reading the fan-meet-the-star or the journalist-meet-the-star stories with a lot of envy. Everyone and anyone you would like to meet in the world of football are down here either with business on the pitch, or off it as a television panelist or commentator.

Add to that, the world's best known journalists, those you see feature on Skysports, BBC or even our own SuperSport rub shoulders daily with us in search of new news for you the readers.

You scramble with others either for world cup tickets or press conference tickets as with thouands of journalists here, demand has outstripped supply

Everton's David Moyes nearly fell victim of the star cast here when he came to wish Steve Pienaar success against Uruguay on Wednesday evening. After much debate, two journalists finally agreed that Moyes was worth including in their album and went to get the shot.

Want to meet Diego Maradona? Just book yourself a seat at one of his pre-match press conferences and you could get to shake hands with the Argentine god of football.

Van Persie. Easy. The Dutch camp is unlike the North Koreans and you are even able to join them in training! Arsene Wenger? Ah..lets leave that one for now.

If you are the lazy type, you can even just wait for crumbs that fall off the table as say Mark Gleeson interviews someone on phone about a breaking story on the Ivory Coast minutes before they take to the pitch, or narrates to a foreign journalist why Benni McCarthy was dropped.

Getting Vision Group's team started here is a reason yours truly is yet to feature on those pages, but relax, this is a marathon not a sprint. It is just one week since the month-long World Cup kicked off. Anyone met Zuma The Man or held the "World Cup" trophy yet?