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Events on Saturday 4 February 1961 1
1961Angolan War of Independence beginsUprising against Portuguese colonial ruleNationalist militants attacked prisons and plantations in Luanda, opening a thirteen-year armed struggle against Portuguese rule in Angola. The conflict became one of the longest wars of decolonization in Africa, ending only in 1974.