A political history of the civil war in Angola, 1964 – 1990.

* Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, Third Edition, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006, on Angola in Chapter 11, " American Involvement in Angola and Southern Africa: Nyerere's Response ", pp. 324 – 346, ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2.

* 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola ; the first to be documented by satellites.

During 1975 – 1976, Mobutu directed the FAZ to intervene in the Angolan Civil War assisting the National Liberation Front of Angola ( FNLA )' s fight against the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ).

* 1976 – Angola joins the United Nations.

The Angola Dragoons operated as mounted infantry – like the original dragoons – each soldier being armed with a pistol to fire when on horseback and with an automatic rifle, to use when dismounted.

* 1975 – The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.

* 1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

* 1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.

Like most of Portuguese Angola, the cosmopolitan city of Luanda was not affected by the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ); economic growth and development in the entire region reached record highs during this period.

* 1975 – Independence of Angola.

* 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.

More recent uses include: by France during the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ), the Algerian War ( 1954 – 1962 ), the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ) and the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), The Six-Day War by Israel ( 1967 ), in Nigeria ( 1969 ), India and Pakistan ( 1965 and 1971 ), Turkey during the invasion of Cyprus ( 1974 ), by Morocco during the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), Iran ( 1980 – 88 ), Brazil ( 1972 ), Egypt ( 1973 ), Iraq ( 1980 – 88, 1991, 2003 – 2011 ), Angola ( 1993 ), Yugoslavia ( 1991-1996 ), and by Argentina ( 1982 ).

* 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50.

* February 4 – The Portuguese Colonial War begins in Angola.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Angola in June 2006, offering a US $ 9 billion loan for infrastructure improvements in return for petroleum.

At the Ronald Reagan / Mikhail Gorbachev summit in Moscow ( 29 May – 1 June 1988 ) between leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, it was decided that Cuban troops would be withdrawn from Angola, and Soviet military aid would cease, as soon as South Africa withdrew from Namibia.

The last time that American and British unlawful combatants were executed after " a regularly constituted court " was Luanda Trial in Angola in June 1976.

Dos Santos with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev whilst the latter was on a state visit to Angola on 26 June 2009

As of June 2007, Bongo, along with President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo, Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and José Eduardo dos Santos from Angola was being investigated by the French magistrates after the complaint made by French NGOs Survie and Sherpa due to claims that he has used millions of pounds of embezzled public funds to acquire lavish properties in France.

The Portuguese authorities in Angola arrested Neto on June 8, 1960.

In Angola, International Children's Day ( Dia Internacional da Criança ) is celebrated on June 1 and is a national holiday.

In Russia, as well as other former Soviet Union states, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, other former or current communist states, Albania, Angola, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, East Germany, Kosovo, Laos, Republic of Macedonia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Tanzania and Yemen, Children's Day is celebrated on June 1.

In Portugal ( and also at some of its former colonies such as Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Cape Verde, East Timor, Angola, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe ), Children's Day ( Dia da Criança ) is celebrated on June 1.

Marcolino Moco ( born 1953 ) was the Prime Minister of Angola from December 2, 1992 until June 3, 1996.

Angola had the status of a Portuguese colony from 1655 until the Assembly of the Republic passed a law giving all Portuguese colonies provincial status on 11 June 1951.

The Portuguese Colonial Act, passed on 13 June 1933 recognized the supremacy of the Portuguese over native people, and even if the natives could pursue all studies including university, the de facto situation was of clear disadvantage due to deep cultural and social differences between most of the traditional indigenous communities or tribes and the ethnic Portuguese who used to live in the littoral of Angola.

Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, known as Alda Lara ( born 9 June 1930, Benguela, Angola ; died 30 January 1962, Cambambe, Angola ).

* Staff 1976: Mercenaries trial begins in Angola, BBC, part of their " On this Day " series ( 11 June 1976 ).

* 13 June – Sipho Phungulwa, who was part of a group of exiles who were held in African National Congress detention camps in Angola, is shot dead in Umtata while trying to seek an audience with the Transkei ANC leadership to expose the hardships they had endured in Angola.

* 28 June – Jeannette Schoon, and her 6-year daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, Angola

The Luanda Trial was a trial held in Luanda, Angola in June and July 1976 by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), to prosecute thirteen foreign mercenaries who had served its defeated rival, the National Liberation Front of Angola ( FNLA ).

* June 25: Portugal withdraws from Angola and Mozambique, where Marxist governments are installed, the former with backing from Cuban troops.

The Angola Air Charter fleet consists of the following aircraft ( at June 2011 ):

Recorded by John and Alan Lomax on June at Angola prison, Louisiana, and on July at Parchman prison, Mississippi.

* January 15 – Portugal abandons the U. N. General Assembly due to the debate over Angola.

Most of the other cities ranged from 10 to 15 % in the number of Europeans, while Portuguese Angola cities had European majorities ranging from 50 % to 60 %.

In January 2007 the State of Louisiana estimated that 15, 318 people lived in the parish, with 5, 000 of them being prisoners at Louisiana State Penitentiary ( Angola ).

About 200 km from the city of Namibe the Portuguese authorities founded the Iona National Park, Angola's oldest and largest national park, which was proclaimed as a reserve in 1937 and was upgraded by the authorities of Portuguese Angola to a national park covering 15, 150 km² in 1964.

During the Benguela Niño, warm, salty waters from the Angola Current move southward, from 15 ° S to as far as 25 ° S.

In the recent 2010 African Nations Cup, Mali made football headlines from coming back 4 – 0 with 15 minutes left to level 4 – 4 with Angola.

On 15 March, the Union of Peoples of Angola ( UPA ), under the leadership of Holden Roberto, launched an incursion into Angola from its base in Zaïre, leading 4000 to 5000 militants.

They signed on 15 January what became known as the Alvor Agreement, granting Angola independence on 11 November and establishing a transitional government.

He launched an incursion into Angola on March 15, 1961, leading 4, 000 to 5, 000 militants.