CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1763 The Berbice slave uprising begins in Guyana, becoming the first major slave revolt in South America.
ResistanceOn this day — February 23 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1763 
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1854 The official independence of the Orange Free State, a Boer republic in what is now South Africa, is declared.
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CC BY 3.0 DE, Wikimedia Commons 1924 Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work underpinning CT scanning, is born.
Birth
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2018 Parliamentary elections are held in Djibouti.
PoliticsAhmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American man, is shot and killed by three white men while jogging near Brunswick, Georgia, in a case that sparked nationwide protests.
Diaspora
CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1983 Mido, Egyptian international footballer, is born.
Birth