Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
French President Charles de Gaulle used a televised address to condemn the OAS bombing campaign and set out the possible routes to Algerian independence.
Source: INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), France
Corrected in September 2026 · see what changed
Politics
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1985 The mayors of Rome and Carthage, Ugo Vetere and Chedly Klibi, signed a treaty of friendship in Tunis, a symbolic close to the Third Punic War 2,131 years after it ended in fact. No state of war had existed for two millennia; the gesture was aimed at Mediterranean cooperation.
Sources: Snopes ; Saudi Aramco World (AramcoWorld archive) ; Reuters, via the Los Angeles Times
Culture
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1982 Neil Aggett, a Kenyan-born South African doctor and trade union organiser, was found hanged in his cell at John Vorster Square after 70 days in security police detention without trial. A 1982 inquest ruled it a suicide. A reopened inquest in 2022 found that Security Branch officers had killed him, and the judge called the original finding a serious error of judgment. Nobody has been prosecuted.
Sources: Daily Maverick ; Foundation for Human Rights
Corrected in September 2026 · see what changed
Death
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2005 Gnassingbé Eyadéma, longtime President of Togo who ruled for 38 years, died.
Sources: Al Jazeera ; BBC News
Death