1963: Rhodesia And Nyasaland, Federation Of

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The ten-year-old Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved on Dec. 31, 1963. This date had been announced at a conference at Victoria Falls on July 2. R. A. Butler, then Britain's minister for Central African affairs, handed down the historic decision. It was at this same tourist resort in... ...