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Events on Thursday 13 April 1922 1
1922 – 1999Julius Nyerere (1922-1999)Died 14 October 1999, aged 77Julius Nyerere led Tanganyika, later Tanzania, to independence and served as its first president for more than two decades. He was a prominent advocate of African socialism and Pan-Africanism, promoting the philosophy of Ujamaa. He died of leukemia in London.