Today is Readjustment Movement Day, a public holiday in Guinea-Bissau. Also known as Anniversary of the Movement of Readjustment Day, it marks the coup that took place on this day in 1980. On November 14th 1980, the government of Luis Cabral was overthrown in a relatively bloodless coup led by Prime Minister and former armed forces commander João Bernardo Vieira. He ruled until 1999 when he removed from power in a military coup and exiled. Vieira returned from exile in 2005, becoming president again, hanging on to power until March 2009, when he was assassinated by renegade soldiers.
Today is the birthday, in 1950 of Leo van de Ketterij, Dutch guitarist with Shocking Blue, (1970 US No.1 & UK No.8 single ‘Venus’).
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