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Events on Friday 3 August 1934 1
1934 – 2002Jonas Savimbi (1934-2002)Died 22 February 2002, aged 67Jonas Savimbi founded UNITA and led it through nearly three decades of civil war against Angola's MPLA government. Backed at various times by the United States and apartheid South Africa, he rejected election results in 1992 and returned to war. He was killed in a firefight with government troops, and a ceasefire followed within weeks.