Today's "Golden Oldie" is from the start of the Eighties. I chose it because we are again at the start of a decade. Thirty years later.
The references to Iran and Afghanistan are interesting but I was stumped by the reference to "peace coming to a war-torn African state by setting up British colonial rule". So I had to do some research.
* * * Turns out that the "war-torn African state" was the white minority-ruled Republic of Rhodesia which, on June 1, 1979, was replaced by the bi-racially ruled Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. However, the Lancaster House Agreement of December 1979 then returned control of the country to the United Kingdom in preparation for elections to be held in the spring of 1980. Zimbabwe Rhodesia became, once again, the British colony of Southern Rhodesia.
Four months later in April of 1980, the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became the independent Republic of Zimbabwe.
Labels: Afghanistan, Africa, Carter, Iran, Rhodesia, Soviet Union, Tehran, U.K., U.S.A., Zimbabwe
7 Comments:
G'day Yaacov
You're lucky I didn't know about Dry Bones back then. At 67 I'm a card-carrying pedant and I would have pointed out that the last frame should have read that it was the third day of the last year of the 70s. :-)
This is almost as bad as those numerically-challenged people who thought that 2000 was the beginning of the new millennium rather than the last year of the 20th century.
Keep up the good work and the fun.
Regards
Aaron
A card carrying PEDANT ?
how can I acquire a card too ?
I already have 3 stupid cards.........
The UK involvement in Rhodesia was a farce. Ian Smith had smelt the roses and made a power-sharing deal with Abel Muzorewa, but Britain had already offered the top job to Mugabe, ie effectively helped him to stitch up the election. The rest, unfortunately, is history.
Geez, look at how Zimbabwe turned out! Bob Marley was happy to sing about how he wanted to liberate Zimbabwe, but who is singing about it now that things are much worse? Or is repression only trendy when it's bi-racial?
I wouldn't have guess what country you were talking about either - my quick guess without looking it up was Uganda.
In the case of centuries and millenia, the first comment (by Anonymous) is correct because centuries start with '01 and end with the following '00 (the 20th century was from 1901-2000) and the beginning of the millenium was indeed in 2001. He was right because many people, thinking that a year that began with a 2 was a landmark, thought that 2000 was the beginning of the millenium.
However, with decades, it is different. The 1970s were from 1970-1979, not 1971-1980. That is because 1980 has more in common with the years beginning with '80 than those with '70. Therefore, the 2000s (I refuse to call them the "Aughts" or other such nonsense) are from 2000-2009 (not 2001-2010) and this year is the beginning of the 2010s. Get it?
I like the humor of the cartoon..
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