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.
Ras Ali Alula's army recovered from an early defeat to capture the warlord Wube Haile Maryam at the Battle of Debre Tabor in Ethiopia.
Source: Nordic Africa Institute (Bernhard Lindahl, Local History of Ethiopia)
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BattleBritish troops failed in a third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith at the Battle of Vaal Krantz during the Second Boer War.
Sources: The Gazette (London Gazette) ; Project Gutenberg (Louis Creswicke, South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. III, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1900)
Battle
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1959 Daniel François Malan, South African Prime Minister whose government implemented the earliest apartheid legislation, died.
Source: Britannica
Death
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1986 Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist and physicist known for his research on ancient African civilizations, died.
Source: Britannica
Read the full article: Cheikh Anta Diop and the Contested Question of Ancient Egypt's Race
Death
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1999 Omar Marmoush, Egyptian international footballer, was born.
Sources: Bundesliga ; Transfermarkt
Birth