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Patrice Lumumba is assassinated amid the Congo Crisis

📅 17 January 1961

Patrice Lumumba, Maurice Mpolo, and Joseph Okito were killed in Katanga after being transferred there by Congolese authorities. A UN investigation and later Belgian parliamentary inquiry documented...