The United Kingdom ended its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence.
IndependenceOn this day — February 28 in African history
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1948 Colonial police killed three unarmed ex-servicemen marching to petition the governor in the Accra riots, a pivotal event that accelerated Ghana's independence movement.
PoliticsThe magnitude 7.8 1969 Portugal earthquake struck the Atlantic coast, killing 8 people in Morocco in addition to casualties in Portugal.
Disaster
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1970 Noureddine Morceli, Algerian middle-distance runner and 1500m world champion, was born.
Birth