Baixa de Cassanje Revolt Sparks Angolan War of Independence, January 3, 1961

A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.

Date: January 3, 1961

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