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On January 18, 1963, the Royal Colony of Aden joined it. After the annexation of the Upper Aulaki Sultanate in June 1964, the federation included 17 states. On July 23, 1962, negotiations began in London between the British Minister of Colonies, Duncan Sandys, and the ministers of the Federation of South Arabia and the Colony of Aden. The ...
The Aden Emergency, also known as the 14 October Revolution (Arabic: ثورة 14 أكتوبر, romanized: Thawrat 14 ʾUktūbar, lit. '14th October Revolution') or as the Radfan Uprising, was an armed rebellion by the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) against the Federation of South Arabia, a British Protectorate of the United ...
In 1963, Aden Colony was reconstituted as the State of Aden within the newly created Federation of South Arabia in an attempt to grant limited self-governance, but the unrest continued. The British withdrew in 1967, and the colony was succeeded by the People's Republic of Southern Yemen , marking the end of British control after 128 years of rule.
United Artists. 6 Academy Award nominations with 1 win; top-grossing film of 1963 Jason and the Argonauts: Don Chaffey: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman: Fantasy: Columbia: Johnny Cool: William Asher: Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jim Backus: Crime: United Artists: Kings of the Sun: J. Lee Thompson: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris ...
Kenneth Cranham (born 12 December 1944) is a British film, television, radio and stage actor. His most notable screen roles were in Oliver! (1968), Up Pompeii (1971), Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), Chocolat (1988), Layer Cake (2004), Gangster No. 1 (2000), Hot Fuzz (2007), Maleficent (2014) and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017).
Take Off Your Clothes and Live! is a 1963 British naturist film directed and written by Arnold Louis Miller. [2] It was partly shot in the south of France. [ 1 ]
The Arab Police mutiny was an incident during the Aden Emergency where Arab soldiers and police mutinied against British troops. [1] While the mutiny itself was localized and quickly suppressed, it undermined the South Arabian Federation which had been organized by Britain in 1959 as an intended successor to direct colonial rule.
The Emirate was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959, and the Federation of South Arabia in 1963. [3] The Radfan Hills, nominally under control of the Amiris of Dhala, were the scene of fierce fighting between British forces and the local Qutaibis during the Aden Emergency in the mid-1960s.