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1970s in Ghana

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1970s in Ghana details events of note that happened in Ghana in the years 1970 to 1979.

Contents

Events

  • August 1970 - National Liberation commission dissolved.
  • 7 July 1972 - Kwame Nkrumah buried.
  • October 1975 - the National Redemption Council is reorganized into the Supreme Military Council (SMC).
  • 1977 - SMC faces mounting nonviolent opposition.
  • March 1978 - national referendum held allow Ghanaians to accept or reject the union government concept.
  • July 1978 - some SMC officers force I. K. Acheampong to resign, replacing him with Lieutenant General Frederick W.K. Akuffo.
  • 1 January 1979 - ban on party politics lifted.
  • 1979 - constitutional assembly working on a new constitution presents an approved draft to government.
  • 15 May 1979 - a group of junior officers led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings attempt a coup.
  • Coup is unsuccessful, the coup leaders were jailed and held for courtmartial.
  • June 4, sympathetic military officers overthrow the SMC II government led by W. K. Akuffo.
  • June 1979 - Jerry Rawlings and other junior officers released from prison.
  • 1979 - Rawlings and the young officers form the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC).
  • 1979 - executions of former heads of military governments (Afrifa of the NLC; Acheampong and some of his associates of the NRC; and Akuffo and leading members of the SMC.
  • September 1979 - Ghana returns to constitutional rule.
  • 24 September 1979 - Hilla Limann, leader of the People's National Party (PNP), sworn in as president of Ghana.
  • 24 September 1979 - the Third Republic begins.

    • Deaths

  • 27 April 1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, first president of Ghana, natural causes in Romania (b. 1909).

    • National holidays

  • January 1: New Year's Day
  • March 6: Independence Day
  • May 1: Labor Day
  • December 25: Christmas
  • December 26: Boxing day

    • In addition, several other places observe local holidays, such as the foundation of their town. These are also "special days."

    References

    1970s in Ghana Wikipedia
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