Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1900 During the Second Boer War, Boer commandos attacked the Platrand ridge above the besieged British garrison at Ladysmith, in the Colony of Natal, and were driven off after a day of fighting.
Sources: South African History Online ; National Army Museum (UK) ; HistoryOfWar.org
Politics
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2022 Sidney Poitier, the Bahamian-American actor who in 1964 became the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, died at age 94.
Sources: The Washington Post ; NBC News
Death
Associated Press — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1995 Joe Slovo, South African anti-apartheid leader, Communist Party general secretary, and Umkhonto we Sizwe co-founder, died at age 68.
Sources: South African History Online ; Encyclopedia.com (Encyclopaedia Judaica)
Death
Steve Steinhardt — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1949 Mike Boit, Kenyan middle-distance runner and Olympic bronze medalist, was born.
Sources: Olympedia ; World Athletics
Birth
Caorongjin — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2019 Lamin Sanneh, Gambian-born scholar of world Christianity and Islam who taught at Yale University, died at age 76.
Sources: Yale News ; Christianity Today
Death