July 1960: Mutiny of the Force Publique and Belgian intervention The political and military crisis that erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in July 1960, in the first month of its ...

In 1948, the Puerto Rican Senate passed what became known as the Gag Law (or “Ley de Mordaza”) which criminalized the ownership and display of the Puerto Rican flag, writing pro-independence ...