Theodosia Okoh — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Ghana, led by Kwame Nkrumah, gained independence from Britain, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African country to do so.
IndependenceOn this day — March 6 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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Theodosia Okoh — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 
Eliot Elisofon — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1909 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian statesman and independence-era leader, was born.
Birth
Otto — CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia Commons 1943 During World War II, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel launched the Battle of Medenine in Tunisia in a failed attempt to slow the British Eighth Army; he left Africa days later.
War
Alastair T. Gardiner — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2003 Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashed at Tamanrasset Airport in Algeria, killing 102 of the 103 people aboard.
Disaster
Tagles — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2006 Ali Farka Touré, celebrated Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist, died.
DeathCyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi whose death in a 1994 plane crash helped ignite the Rwandan genocide, was born.
Birth