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2010 Event - More than 5,000 people lose their homes and crops when the Niger River bursts its banks 2010 Event - A food crisis in Niger causes Nigerians to flee across the border into Nigeria 2010 Event - John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator announces Niger faces total crop failure worse than that of 2005 2009 Event - Peace talks witht he Tuareg rebel groups in north Niger are held by the President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou 1989 Event - French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die 1976 Event - Failed coup in Niger 1974 Event - 28th Tony Awards: River Niger and Raisin win 1974 Event - Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed 1973 Event - Mali and Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel 1973 Event - West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta) 1972 Event - Joseph A Walkers "River Niger," premieres in New York City 1960 Event - Niger gains independence from France 1960 Event - Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence 1958 Event - Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day) 1910 Death - Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37 1898 Event - France signs Niger Convention 1895 Event - King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed 1894 Event - Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger 1891 Event - Captain Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan 1886 Event - George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company 1883 Event - Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger 1883 Event - French Lt-colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger 1882 Event - British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger 1882 Event - British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger 1804 Event - Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River |
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