Today is Independence Day, a public holiday in Zambia. Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate. In 1953, several countries under British control in the region were put into the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The federation was dissolved on December 31st 1963, and in January 1964, Kenneth Kaunda won the only election for Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia. On October 24th 1964, the British colony of Northern Rhodesia became the independent Republic of Zambia and prime minister Kenneth Kaunda became the inaugural president serving until 1991.
Today is the birthday, in 1936, of Bill Wyman, Bassist for the Rolling Stones.
Nice island cartoons. eminds me of my time on Tuvalu