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Event
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Forminière, a lumber and mining company, ceases to operate.
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SM Sanga Balende, a football club, is founded as Union Sud-Kasaienne in Mbuji-Mayi, Kasai.
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The American School of Leopoldville is founded
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| 2 January
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Anicet Kashamura (b. 1928) becomes president of Kivu Province.
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| 9 February
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Joseph Iléo becomes prime minister.
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| 21 February
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 161 urges the UN to immediately take measures to prevent the occurrence of civil war in the Congo, even the use of force is necessary.
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| 24 June
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Popokabaka is established from the Diocese of Kisantu.
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| 2 August
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Cyrille Adoula is appointed prime minister
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| 11 September
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Diocese of Ikela is established from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Coquilhatville
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| 18 September
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Jean Miruho is reappointed president of Kivu Province.
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| 11–12 November
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In the Kindu atrocity thirteen Italian airmen, members of the United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC), sent to pacify the country ravaged by civil war, are murdered.
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| 24 November
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 169 deprecates the secessionist activities in Katanga as well as armed action against United Nations forces and insists that those activities cease.
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