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Events on Friday 29 September 1933 1
1933 – 1986Samora Machel (1933-1986)Died 19 October 1986, aged 53First president of Mozambique after independence from Portugal, and a leading figure in southern Africa's liberation movements. He died when his presidential plane crashed near the South African border, in circumstances that remain disputed. His death was widely seen amid the region's Cold War-era conflicts as suspicious.