The South African apartheid government bombed the London headquarters of the African National Congress.
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MODIS image captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2019 Cyclone Idai made landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 1,000 deaths across the region.
Disaster
Office of the White House (Amanda Lucidon) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2006 An attempted coup against Chadian President Idriss Déby ended in failure.
Politics
Adam Cuerden — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1977 Fannie Lou Hamer, American voting-rights activist and civil rights leader, died.
Death