Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1900 During the Second Boer War, Boer forces attacked the besieged British garrison at Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, but were driven back by its defenders.
PoliticsOn this day — January 6 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1900 
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.
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.
Death
Steve Steinhardt — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1949 Mike Boit, Kenyan middle-distance runner and Olympic bronze medalist, was born.
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.
Death