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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 National Liberation Front (NLF; Arabic: الجبهة القومية للتحرير, romanized: al-jabhat al-qawmiyya lil-taḥrīr) was a Marxist–Leninist paramilitary organization and a political party operating in the Federation of South Arabia, (now southern Yemen) during the Aden Emergency.
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.
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 ...
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.
Many of the problems that Aden had suffered in its time as a colony did not improve as a federated state. In the new federation the Aden Trade Union Congress (ATUC) had a large influence in the new assembly and to prevent it seizing control of the federation in 1962 the former Colony of Aden had joined the Federation of South Arabia so that Aden's pro-British assembly members could counter the ...
Brenda Bakke born () May 15, 1963 (age 61) Fairuza Balk born () May 21, 1974 (age 50) Lucille Ball 1911–1989; Kaye Ballard 1925–2019; Talia Balsam born () March 5, 1959 (age 65) Anne Bancroft 1931–2005; Lisa Banes 1955–2021; Tallulah Bankhead 1902–1968; Elizabeth Banks born () February 10, 1974 (age 51)
The 1963 Aden airport attack was an incident which saw the beginning of the Aden Emergency. Arab nationalists of the NLF made a grenade attack against the British High Commissioner, Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, killing one person and injuring 50. [1] George Henderson, the assistant high commissioner, saved Sir Kennedy's life by pushing him out of the ...