Riot police storm a University of Khartoum…
October 1964 CE
The police kill three people in their attack; two students, Ahmed al-Gurashi Taha from Garrasa in the White Nile and Babiker Abdel Hafiz from Wad-Duroo in Omdurman, and a University of Khartoum manual laborer, Mabior, from the southern part of Sudan.
Protests start the following day, spreading across Sudan.
Artists including Mohammed Wardi and Mohammed al-Amin encourage the protestors.
The civil disobedience movement triggered by the October 20 seminar raid includes a general strike that spreads rapidly throughout Sudan.
Strike leaders identify themselves as the National Front for Professionals.
Along with some former politicians, they form the leftist United National Front (UNF), which makes contact with dissident army officers.
After several days of protests that result in many deaths, Abboud dissolves the government and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
UNF leaders and army commanders who plan the transition from military to civilian rule select a nonpolitical senior civil servant, Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa, as prime minister to head a transitional government.
