** Africa: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

** Governors-General of Sierra Leone

** Presidents of Sierra Leone

** Heads of government of Sierra Leone

** Riverside-La Sierra ( Metrolink station )

** A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.

** A boat carrying market traders capsizes outside Freetown harbour, in Sierra Leone, killing at least 86.

** Sierra Leone recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ).

** Sierra Leone becomes a republic.

** Siaka Stevens is elected the first president of Sierra Leone.

** Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former President of Sierra Leone

** 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone.

** local group ( lived in NE Sonora and adjacent Arizona, in Guadalupe Canyon, along the San Bernardino River, northwestern parts of the Sierra San Luis, in the Batepito Valley with the Sierra Pitaycachi, east of Fronteras, as their stronghold )

** local group ( lived east of Fronteras in der Sierra Pilares de Teras in Sonora )

** local group ( lived in the Sierra de los Ajos northeast of the Sonora River, along the Bavispe River towards Fronteras in the north )

** Janeros ( lived in NW Chihuahua, SE Arizona and NE Sonora in the Animas Mountains, Florida Mountains, south into the Sierra San Luis, Sierra del Tigre, Sierra de Carcay, Sierra de Boca Grande, west beyond the Aros River to Bavispe, east along the Janos River and Casas Grandes River toward the Lake Guzmán in the northern part of the Guzmán Basin and traded at the presidio of Janos, likely called Dzilthdaklizhéndé-‘ Blue Mountain People ’, northern local group )

** Pinaleños ( lived south of Bavispe, between the Bavispe River and Aros River in NE Sonora and NW Chihuahua, controlled the Sierra Huachinera, Sierra de los Alisos and Sierra Nacori Chico, the mountains had a large stock of pine forest – hence they were called Pinery Apaches, southwestern local group ).

** Sequoiadendron giganteum, giant sequoia, found on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada of California

** Sergio Leone, Italian director

** Giovanni Leone is elected President of the Italian Republic.

** Sergio Leone, Italian film director ( b. 1929 )

** Breda Bz. 303 Leone II

** Breda Bz. 301 Leone III

** Leone Battista Alberti – Amator

** Sierra Leone Prinia, Schistolais leontica

** Leone d ' Oro for Lifetime Achievement: Frank Auerbach, Sigmar Polke ( Germany )

** Leone d ' Oro for Best Pavilion: Daniel Buren ( France )

** Leone d ' Oro for Lifetime Achievement: Jasper Johns ( USA )

** Leone d ' Oro for Best Pavilion: Italy

** Leone d ' Oro for Lifetime Achievement: Giovanni Anselmo ( Italy ), Bernd and Hilla Becher ( Germany )

** Leone d ' Oro for Best Pavilion: Jenny Holzer ( USA )

** Pedro II of Brazil | Pedro II is deposed and Brazil becomes a republic.

** Alluvial plain, formed over a long period of time by a river depositing sediment on its floodplain or bed which becomes alluvial soil.

** Till plain, a plain of glacial till that forms when a sheet of ice becomes detached from the main body of a glacier and melts in place depositing the sediments it carries.

** Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

** TCP / IP test succeeds connecting 3 ARPANET nodes ( of 111 ), in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol.

** Constantine II becomes King of Greece, upon the death of his father King Paul.

** Goalkeeper Derek Foster of Sunderland becomes the youngest-ever player to play in the Football League, aged 15 years and 185 days.

** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.

** The deadly Christmas flood of 1964 begins ; It becomes one of the most destructive weather events to affect Oregon in the 20th century.

** Emmett Ashford becomes the first African American umpire in organized baseball, by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.

** Brunei becomes a fully independent state.

** Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.

** Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.

** Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.

** Iceland regains independence, yet remains in personal union with the King of Denmark, who also becomes the King of Iceland until 1944.

** Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives.

** Georges Clemenceau becomes prime minister of France.

** Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.

** After Demirel becomes the president the acting prime minister of Turkey is Erdal İnönü of SHP for 40 days.

** Following the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's victory, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada becomes president of Bolivia.

** Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, Prime Minister of Canada.

** Tara Lipinski, 14, becomes the youngest women's world figure skating champion.

** Strom Thurmond becomes the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Senate ( 41 years and 10 months ).

** KDKA-TV becomes the first local, on-air television station in the US.

** In the first Israeli election, David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.