Britain and Egypt signed the Condominium Agreement establishing the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, signed by Lord Cromer and Boutros Ghali Pasha. The joint administration it created governed Sudan until independence in 1956.
Source: Britannica
HistoryOn this day — January 19 in African history
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Jialiang Gao, www.peace-on-earth.org — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2019 UNESCO's 2019 inscription recognized Timkat, the colorful Ethiopian Orthodox celebration of Epiphany held every January 19, as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
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Library of Congress Life — CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1969 Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist known for Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Farming of Bones, was born.
BirthK. Sello Duiker, acclaimed South African novelist known for Thirteen Cents and The Quiet Violence of Dreams, died at age 30.
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