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2010 Event - Model Naomi Campbell confirms former President of Liberia Charles Taylor gave her diamonds she described as 'dirty looking stones'

1994 Event - Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia

1994 Event - Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia

1992 Event - Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia

1990 Event - Dr. Amos Sawyer installed as interim President of Liberia

1990 Death - Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated

1990 Event - Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr. Johnson's forces

1990 Event - 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia

1989 Event - Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe

1971 Death - William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76

1964 Event - Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market

1943 Event - 1st president of a black country to visit U.S. (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)

1935 Event - Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia

1930 Event - Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia

1929 Event - U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia

1927 Event - William T. Francis named minister to Liberia

1921 Event - Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia

1918 Event - Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia

1915 Event - Atty James L. Curtis named minister of Liberia

1913 Event - George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia

1913 Birthday - William R. Tolbert, president Liberia, 1971-80

1910 Event - William D. Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia

1899 Birthday - Sarah Williamson, U.S. missionary in Liberia

1898 Event - Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia

1895 Event - 200 blacks leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia

1895 Event - William Heard, AME minister and educator, named minister to Liberia

1892 Event - William D McCoy of Indiana appointed U.S. minister to Liberia

1890 Event - Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia

1885 Event - Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia

1882 Death - Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66

1881 Event - Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia

1878 Event - Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia

1878 Event - Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia

1871 Event - J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia

1847 Event - Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society

1824 Event - Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia

1822 Event - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa

1822 Event - Liberia colonized by Americans

1809 Birthday - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st President of Liberia

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