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.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1980 Egypt and Israel established full diplomatic relations following the Camp David Accords.
Sources: The New York Times ; U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian (Foreign Relations of the United States)
PoliticsA total of 279 female students were kidnapped by armed bandits in the Zamfara kidnapping in Zamfara State, Nigeria.
Sources: BBC News ; NBC News (Associated Press) ; Deutsche Welle
Tragedy
CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1946 Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering femtochemistry, was born.
Sources: The Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation) ; California Institute of Technology
Birth
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1934 Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian film director whose war epic Chronicle of the Years of Fire won the Palme d'Or, was born.
Sources: British Film Institute ; Africultures
Birth
CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1978 Abdoulaye Faye, Senegalese international footballer, was born.
Sources: National Football Teams ; Transfermarkt
Birth
CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1984 Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese international footballer, was born.
Sources: South African History Online ; National Football Teams
Birth
CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1961 Mohammed V, Sultan and later King of Morocco who led the country to independence, died.
Sources: The New York Times ; The Atlantic ; Encyclopaedia Britannica ; Encyclopedia.com
Death