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.
Ssolbergj, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1995 Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, becoming the last US state to do so, 130 years after its original passage.
Sources: US National Archives, Office of the Federal Register ; San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate) ; Equal Justice Initiative
Slavery
not not phil from SF, CA, US, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 2010 The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site and burial ground of Buganda kings, were destroyed by fire.
Sources: BBC News ; UNESCO World Heritage Centre ; Daily Monitor (Uganda)
CultureSuicide bombers attacked a mosque near Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 people.
Sources: The New York Times ; Associated Press ; The Guardian
Politics
Sodacan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1941 British and Commonwealth forces launched Operation Appearance during World War II to liberate British Somaliland from Italian occupation.
Sources: Imperial War Museums ; Codenames.info
War
BeraDigle, CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1941 Robert Guéï, Ivorian army general who later became President of Côte d'Ivoire, was born.
Sources: The Guardian ; Encyclopedia.com (Gale)
Birth