Patrice Lumumba, President of the Republic of Congo, was mysteriously assassinated on January 17, 1961.
Laurent Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (same place, slightly new name), was mysteriously assassinated on January
16, 2001, one day less than 40 years later. Since the people who do these types of things are crazy about symbolism, my guess is that Lumumba was actually assassinated on January
16. Kabila's assassin, killed immediately so as not to be an inconvenient witness, becomes the Lee Harvey Oswald of the Congo. The Lumumba assassination is
still a live issue.