Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular disturbance in the gallery, were both touched off by the death, in Katanga, the day before, of Patrice Lumumba.

Third, there were those ( notably Patrice Lumumba ) who favored a unified Congo with a very strong central government.

The president, Joseph Kasavubu, seemed an able administrator and the premier, Patrice Lumumba, a reasonable man.

The wildly erratic nature of Patrice Lumumba caused constant problems -- he frequently announced that he wanted the U.N. to get out of the Congo along with the Belgians, and appealed to Russia for help.

In February the murder of Patrice Lumumba, who had been kidnaped into Katanga and executed on order of Tshombe, again stirred the U.N. to action.

Most modern assassinations have been committed either during a public performance or during transport, both because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d ' état where security is either overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely Salvador Allende.

In 1964, Cuba supported the Simba Rebellion of adherents of Patrice Lumumba in Congo-Leopoldville ( present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo ).

Parliamentary elections in 1960 produced the nationalist Patrice Lumumba as prime minister and pro-Western Joseph Kasavubu as president of the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.

From the day of the arguably ill-prepared independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the tensions between the powerful leaders of the political elite, such as Joseph Kasa Vubu, Patrice Lumumba, Moise Tshombe, Joseph Mobutu and others, jeopardize the political stability of the new state.

It was also, arguably, in the first steps of the Congo into independence, the underlying cause of the crisis between Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and President Joseph Kasa Vubu, who ultimately dismissed each other, in 1960.

* 1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.

** Patrice Lumumba of Republic of Congo is assassinated.

* February 13 – The Congo government announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba.

* June 22 – Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba.

* January 17 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo ( b. 1925 )

** The Congolese president, Joseph Kasavubu, fires Patrice Lumumba's entire government, and also places Lumumba under house arrest.

** Patrice Lumumba, the deposed premier of the Republic of the Congo, is arrested by the troops of Colonel Joseph Mobutu.

* December 7 – The United Nations Security Council is called into session by the Soviet Union in order to consider Soviet demands for the Security Council to seek the immediate release of the former Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba.

Many of the street names reflect an African nationalist or anti-colonial theme, with names such as " Independence Avenue " or " Patrice Lumumba Road " being main roads.

Patrice Émery Lumumba ( 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961 ) was a Congolese independence leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960.

The image of Patrice Lumumba continues to serve as an inspiration in contemporary Congolese politics.

Her name was Patrice Amati del Grande, and she became his companion after he separated from his wife.

By this time he had started what was to be an enduring friendship with the romantic poet Patrice Contamine, and had had his first compositions published by his father.

This conflict became increasingly sharp in 1873, when Thiers himself was censured by the National Assembly as not being " sufficiently conservative " and resigned to make way for Marshal Patrice MacMahon as the new president.

This was not merely a by-product of the Kulturkampf, but part of an integrated strategy to promote republicanism in France by strategically and ideologically isolating the clerical-monarchist regime of President Patrice de Mac-Mahon.

The army was nominally led by Napoleon III with Marshals Francois Achille Bazaine, Patrice de Mac-Mahon, and Jules Trochu among others.

François was 10 years old when Patrice died.

* In 1966 Patrice Lumumba's image was rehabilitated by the Mobutu regime and he was proclaimed a national hero and martyr in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* The Peoples ' Friendship University of the USSR was renamed " Patrice Lumumba Peoples ' Friendship University " in 1961, but it was later renamed " The Peoples ' Friendship University of Russia " in the post-Soviet landscape in 1992.

* Comedian Patrice O ' Neal was named after Lumumba.

When the Congo gained independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and the Congo Crisis began, Kabila was a " deputy commander " in the Jeunesses Balubakat, the youth wing of the Patrice Lumumba-aligned General Association of the Baluba People of Katanga ( Balubakat ), actively fighting the secessionist forces of Moise Tshombe.

His mother, Patrice Maureen White ( 1946 – 1995 ), was a school teacher living in New York, and his father William Perez was a Vietnam veteran.

La Veuve de Saint-Pierre ( 2000 ) by Patrice Leconte, for which she was nominated for a César for Best Actress, was a period drama which saw Binoche appear opposite Daniel Auteuil in the role of a woman who attempts to save a condemned man from the guillotine.

Godrèche was not well known to American audiences until Patrice Leconte's Ridicule was released in 1996.

Flynn was married three times: to actress Lili Damita from 1935 until 1942 ( one son, Sean Flynn, born 1941, reported missing in Cambodia in 1970 and presumed dead ); to Nora Eddington from 1943 until 1949 ( two daughters, Deirdre born 1945 and Rory born 1947 ); and to actress Patrice Wymore from 1950 until his death ( one daughter, Arnella Roma, 1953 – 98 ).

After Ellen Runyon died of the effects of her own drinking problems, Runyon and Patrice married ; that marriage ended in 1946 when Patrice left Runyon for a younger man.

Adams is married to Patrice Newell.

Sam Rainsy is married to Tioulong Samura, who is also member of parliament for his current party, and they have three children: Patrice Sam, Muriel Sam and Rachel Sam.

He was married firstly to the writer Patrice Chaplin and secondly to Patricia Betaudier, who is a painter.

" Angle is married to Patrice Pisinski, former Director of the Office of Technology Advancement and Outreach at the United States Department of Energy.

He is married to Patrice and has a stepdaughter, Mia.