Timeline of Zambia: Difference between revisions

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#'''1972''': [[Zamrock]] music genre comes is started.
#'''1972''': [[Zamrock]] music genre comes is started.
#'''January 1970''': [[Zambia]] had acquired majority holding in the Zambian operations of the two major foreign mining interests, the Anglo American Corporation and the Rhodesian Selection Trust (RST). The two became [[Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines]] (NCCM) and [[Roan Consolidated Mines]] (RCM).
#'''January 1970''': [[Zambia]] had acquired majority holding in the Zambian operations of the two major foreign mining interests, the Anglo American Corporation and the Rhodesian Selection Trust (RST). The two became [[Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines]] (NCCM) and [[Roan Consolidated Mines]] (RCM).
#'''24 December 1964''': [[Kenneth Kaunda]]'s [[Chilenje House 394]] is achieved as a national monument.
#'''24 October 1964''': Zambia gains its independence from British colonial rule.
#'''24 October 1964''': Zambia gains its independence from British colonial rule.
#'''25 August 1960''': [[Lusaka]] gains city status.
#'''17 May 1960''': The [[Kariba Dam]] is opened.
#'''17 May 1960''': The [[Kariba Dam]] is opened.
#'''October 1959''': [[United National Independence Party]] (UNIP) is formed as a successor to the [[Zambian African National Congress]] (ZANC), which had been banned earlier in the year.
#'''October 1959''': [[United National Independence Party]] (UNIP) is formed as a successor to the [[Zambian African National Congress]] (ZANC), which had been banned earlier in the year.