Delos on en.wikipedia — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1902 During the Second Boer War, Boer forces led by Koos de la Rey defeated the British at the Battle of Tweebosch.
WarOn this day — March 7 in African history
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Delos on en.wikipedia — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1902 
Abernathy Family — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1965 On 'Bloody Sunday,' some 600 civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
Civil RightsFour explosions tore through the Nkoantoma military barracks in Bata, killing 108 people and injuring more than 600. President Teodoro Obiang said explosives had been stored carelessly and were set off by farmers burning fields nearby. Human rights groups and reporters who went to the site found no sign of farming there.
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