What the records say
- When
- 14 Sep 1960
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 4.32° S, 15.31° E
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: treaties and coupsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Cline Center Coup d’État Project v2.2.2Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois · names it “Coup in Democratic Republic of the Congo”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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