2003 Event Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport 1993 Event Guinee general Lansana re-elected president 1977 Event Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee 1966 Event Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee 1964 Event Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market 1958 Event French Guinee becomes independent republic Guinea 1942 Birthday Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatoriaal Guinee, 1979-
