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Ghana
2001 Police tear gas unruly soccer fans, ensuing panic kills over 100 in Ghana

1998 Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies

1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport, New York City

1981 Lt Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution

1979 Ghana adopts constitution

1972 Jim Ryan (U.S.) and Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide and fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold

1972 Kwame Nkrumah, re-buried in Nkroful Ghana

1972 Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62

1972 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana

1966 Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee

1966 Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana

1964 Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana

1963 W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana

1962 Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana

1960 Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium

1960 Ghana becomes a republic

1957 President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant

1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from U.K.

1951 Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)

1938 Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W Nzima Ghana

1927 James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies

1909 Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66

1901 Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana)

1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)

1875 James E K Aggrey, Ghana, U.S. theologian/educationalist



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