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Dec. 12, 1971 - Several thousand cheering and jubilant people today watched President Nyerere beat a traditional African drum to start the celebrations marking mainland Tanzania's 10th anniversary of independence. The impressive and colourful ceremony took place in Daras-Salaam outside the headquarters of the ruling TANU party. Almost simultaneously a 10-gun salute was fired by a battery of the Tanzania people's Defence Force. Traditional dances, church bells and sirens followed. Photo shows all the tens Tanzania's President Julius K. Nyerere signals the starts of the ten days celebrations for the tenth anniversary of mainland Tanzania's independence with ten strokes on the Uhuru'('Freedom') drum at the ten o'clock in the morning

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Battery Bells Cheering Dances Fired Followed Impressive Jubilant Mainland Marking Nyerere Oclock Ruling Signals Simultaneously Sirens Starts Strokes Tanu Tanzania Tenth Thousand Uhuru Watched

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