Ras Ali Alula defeated warlord Wube Haile Maryam at the Battle of Debre Tabor in Ethiopia.
BattleOn this day — February 7 in African history
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British troops failed in a third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith at the Battle of Vaal Krantz during the Second Boer War.
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
Death
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1999 Omar Marmoush, Egyptian international footballer, was born.
Birth