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.
UtCon Collection, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1962 The Évian Accords were signed, ending the eight-year Algerian War of Independence from France.
Sources: United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS vol. 507, No. 7395) ; Universite Laval, CEFAN (Digithèque/Textes)
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IndependenceThe Kumasi Mutiny began when African soldiers of the West African Regiment at Kumasi, in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), mutinied over pay that was in arrears.
Sources: UK Parliament, Historic Hansard ; DCM Medals (Peter Duckers)
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Politics
Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2015 Gunmen attacked the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, killing 24 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Sources: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland - Global Terrorism Database ; NPR ; BBC News
PoliticsF. W. de Klerk, last State President of apartheid-era South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was born.
Sources: Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation) ; South African History Online
Birth
Attribution, Wikimedia Commons 1977 Marien Ngouabi, President of the Republic of the Congo, was assassinated.
Sources: South African History Online ; The New York Times (archive)
Death