* 1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

In the 1970s the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was reputed to practice cannibalism.

As a police officer, Akii-Bua was promoted by Ugandan president Idi Amin, and given a house, as a reward for his athletic prowess.

Some of the Sikhs who had settled in eastern Africa were expelled by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 1972.

* 1971 Ugandan coup d ' état-Military coup in Uganda led by Idi Amin.

* Conqueror of the British Empire, a self-awarded style of the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin.

Eventually, Amin held the rank of Major General in the post-colonial Ugandan Army and became its Commander before seizing power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote.

* Bob Astles-former associate of Ugandan presidents Milton Obote and Idi Amin

Emperor and Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictator Idi Amin had seven of them.

As prime minister, Obote was implicated in a gold smuggling plot, together with Idi Amin, then deputy commander of the Ugandan armed forces.

In 1979, Idi Amin was ousted by Tanzanian forces aided by Ugandan exiles.

Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, was born into the Kakwa ethnic group.

Bazilio Olara-Okello ( 1929 – 9 January 1990 ) was a Ugandan military officer and one of the commanders of the Uganda National Liberation Army ( UNLA ) that together with the Tanzanian army overthrew Idi Amin in 1979.

* Idi Amin, future Ugandan dictator, had joined the KAR in 1946.

Rwigema then returned to Tanzania and fought in the 1979 war in which Museveni's army, allied with the Tanzanian army and other Ugandan exiles defeated Amin.

The history of Uganda from 1962 through 1971 comprises the history of Uganda from Ugandan independence from the United Kingdom to the rise of the dictator Idi Amin.

Amin was close friends with several Israeli military advisers who were in Uganda to help train the Ugandan Army, and their eventual role in Amin's efforts to oust Obote remained the subject of continuing controversy.

Although Amin proclaimed that the “ common man ” was the beneficiary of this drastic act — which proved immensely popular in Uganda and most of Africa — it was actually the Ugandan army that emerged with the houses, cars, and businesses of the departing Asian minority.

His small army contingent in twenty-seven trucks set out to capture the southern Ugandan military post at Masaka but instead settled down to await a general uprising against Amin, which did not occur.

Libya's Qadhafi sent 3, 000 troops to aid Amin, but the Libyans soon found themselves on the front line, while behind them Ugandan Army units were using supply trucks to carry their newly plundered wealth in the opposite direction.

A month before the liberation of Kampala, during the Uganda-Tanzania War, representatives of twenty-two Ugandan civilian and military groups were hastily called together at Moshi, Tanzania, to try to agree on an interim civilian government once Amin was removed.

The National Resistance Movement's history begins after the overthrow of Idi Amin by an alliance of Ugandan exiles and Tanzanian forces in 1979.

Museveni, who had guerrilla war experience with the Mozambican Liberation Front ( FRELIMO ) in Mozambique, and his own Front for National Salvation ( FRONASA ) formed in Tanzania to fight Idi Amin, led the NRA to victory against Ugandan government troops ( UNLA ) in 1986.

* 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician ( d. 1979 )

* 1943 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist ( d. 1996 )

* 1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.

* 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic

* 1966 – In Syria, Baath party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.

* 1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.

* 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.

* 1974 – Haj Amin al-Husseini, Palestinian Muslim nationalist ( b. 1895 or 1897 )

Typical among them was the fiercely anti-Semitic Curt Prufer, who joined the Foreign Office in 1907, served as the German Ambassador to Brazil in 1938 – 1942, and then worked closely with the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husayni in recruiting Balkan Muslims to kill Jews in 1943.

* 1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.

* February 23 – An intra-party military coup in Syria replaces the previous government of Amin al-Hafiz by one lead by Salah Jadid.

* April 11 – Tanzanian troops take Kampala, the capital of Uganda ; Idi Amin flees.

* December 27 – Hafizullah Amin, General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, President of Afghanistan ( b. 1929 )

* September 23 – Amin Gemayel, brother of Bachir, is elected president of Lebanon.

After the Khalq – Parcham struggle, a power struggle within the Khalq faction began between Taraki and Amin.

On 27 December Radio Kabul broadcast Karmal's pre-recorded speech, which stated " Today the torture machine of Amin has been smashed, his accomplices – the primitive executioners, usurpers and murderers of tens of thousand of our fellow countrymen – fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters, children and old people ..." On 1 January Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet Chairman of the Council of Ministers, congratulated Karmal on his " election " as leader, before any Afghan state or party organ had elected him to anything.

* 1979 – President Nur Muhammad Taraki, leader of PDPA, is assassinated and replaced by Hafizullah Amin.

In 1975 – 1976, Amin became the Chairman of the Organisation of African Unity ( OAU ), a pan-Africanist group designed to promote solidarity of the African states.

Dissent within Uganda and Amin's attempt to annex the Kagera province of Tanzania in 1978 led to the Uganda – Tanzania War and the demise of his eight-year regime-leading Amin to flee to exile first to Libya, then to Saudi Arabia where he lived until his death on 16 August 2003.

According to Fred Guweddeko, a researcher at Makerere University, Idi Amin was the son of Andreas Nyabire ( 1889 – 1976 ).

* August 16: Idi Amin, former president of Uganda ( 1971 – 1979 )

* Amin Maalouf – Leo Africanus