** Portuguese Cape Verde

** Mount Fogo, Cape Verde

** Kaapse Klopse ( Cape Town )

** Children's Day ( Cape Verde )

** Heads of state of Cape Verde

** Heads of government of Cape Verde ( see also: Prime Minister of Cape Verde ')

** Colonial heads of Cape Verde

** Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965.

** The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting in Cape Town, marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.

** Battle of Cape Matapan: Off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat those of Italy, sinking 5 warships.

** Pope John Paul II begins an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad.

** The North Cape Oil Spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

** Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

** STS-45: Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off from Cape Canaveral carrying instruments designed to study global warming.

** The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy, to be the first man-made satellite to leave the solar system.

** Prime Minister of Cape Verde Pedro Pires resigns following his party's loss in the January 13 Cape Verdean parliamentary election, the first ever multiparty election in an African nation.

** STS-37: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

** STS-39: Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from Cape Canaveral to study instruments related to the Strategic Defense Initiative.

** WWII: Allied victory at the Battle of Cape Spada and five destroyers sink the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni.

** WWII: The Royal Navy and Regia Marina fight the Battle of Cape Spartivento.

** Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 ( Gerald Carr, William Pogue, Edward Gibson ) from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an 84-day mission.

** Safford Cape, American composer and musicologist ( b. 1906 )

** Nani, Cape Verde-born Portuguese footballer

** Arabia: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia.

** Presidents of Somalia

** Prime Ministers of Somalia

** The last natural smallpox case is discovered in Merca district, Somalia.

** War in Somalia ( 2006 – 2009 ) – involved largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) forces whom fought against the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union ( ICU ), and other affiliated militias for control of the country.

** War in Somalia ( 2009 – present ) – involved largely the forces of the Somali Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) assisted by African Union peacekeeping troops, whom fought against various militant Islamist factions for control of the country.

** 24 Pakistani troops in the UN forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.

** General Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup, 6 days after the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.

** Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, President of Somalia, assassinated ( b. 1919 )

** Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali encourages the United Nations Security Council to pass United Nations Security Council Resolution 794, authorizing military intervention in the Somali Civil War to allow emergency food supplies to reach the people of Somalia.

** UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.

** Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia.

** Somalia mobilizes its troops, due to an apparent Ethiopian attack.

** Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia ( 2004 – 2008 ) ( b. 1934 )

* ** Somalia does not have a western-most point, the western section of the border being formed by the 41 ° longitude

** Somali montane xeric woodlands ( Somalia )

** Kismayo University ( Somalia )

** Somalia ( Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party ) 1976-1991

** Somaliland Originally supplied to Somalia

**. so, the top-level Internet domain of Somalia

** DALKOM Somalia

** 1. to monitor the cease-fire in Mogadishu and help to restore order in Somalia after the dissolution of its central government

** Somalia, since 1990 ( supplies arms to the Transitional Federal Government, but no general trade.

** Somalia gerbil, Gerbillus dunni