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Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

Timeline of Events

1966

5.26.1966

British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.

1968

10.1.1968

The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).

1978

11.18.1978

Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.