{"slug": "moise-tshombe", "label": "Moïse Tshombe", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%C3%AFse_Tshombe", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334830", "qid": "Q334830", "description": "Congolese politician and secessionist leader (1919–1969)", "entries": 10, "years": 7, "span": [1960, 1967], "span_label": ["1960 CE", "1967 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Moise Tshombe"], "related": [{"slug": "democratic-republic-of-the-congo", "label": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "united-nations", "label": "United Nations", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "algeria", "label": "Algeria", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – Congo Crisis: Moise Tshombe declares the Congolese province of Katanga independent. He requests and receives help from Belgium.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#July", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 - Moise Tshombe declared the Congolese province of Katanga independent, and, taking advantage of the Congo's dismissal of Belgian officers from the Congolese Army, asked for military aid from Belgium. The Congo's prime minister Patrice Lumumba asked the United Nations to intervene in the crisis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323789024#July", "title": "1960 in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)", "revid": 1323789024, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 22", "text": "June 22 – Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of his connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#June", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1962, "year_label": "1962 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – Katangan Prime Minister Moise Tshombe begins negotiations to rejoin the Congo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373095518#March", "title": "1962", "revid": 1373095518, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1962, "year_label": "1962 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 30", "text": "December 30 – United Nations troops occupy the last rebel positions in Katanga; Moise Tshombe moves to South Rhodesia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373095518#December", "title": "1962", "revid": 1373095518, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 26", "text": "June 26 – Moise Tshombe returns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from exile in Spain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371069587#June", "title": "1964", "revid": 1371069587, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 13", "text": "October 13 – Congo President Joseph Kasavubu fires Prime Minister Moise Tshombe and forms a provisional government, with Évariste Kimba in a leading position.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#September–October", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – Katangese troops in Stanleyville, Congo, revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled minister Moise Tshombe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#July", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 13", "text": "March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#March", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 30", "text": "June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former president of Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped and taken to Algeria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#June", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › June"}}]}