24 February 1966
A military coup, led by General Joseph Ankrah, seized power in Ghana. They staged the coup while President Kwame Nkrumah was out of the country en route to China.
References
Bute, E.L. & Harmer, H.J.P. (1997). The Black Handbook, London: Cassell.|ghanaweb, Lt. General Joseph A. Ankrah, from GhanaWeb, [online], Available at www.ghanaweb.com [Accessed: 30 January 2014]