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Events on Monday 27 November 1939 1
1939 – 2001Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1939-2001)Died 16 January 2001, aged 61Kabila seized power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997 after ousting Mobutu Sese Seko, then fought a war against his former Rwandan and Ugandan backers. He was shot dead by one of his bodyguards in the presidential palace in Kinshasa. His son Joseph Kabila succeeded him.