Press — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1979 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in Washington, D.C.
PoliticsOn this day — March 26 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Press — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1979 The African Regroupment Party, a pan-African political movement in French West Africa, was launched at a meeting in Paris.
PoliticsDuring the Algerian Civil War, dozens of villagers, mostly infants, were killed with axes and knives in the Oued Bouaicha massacre.
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1984 Ahmed Sékou Touré, the first President of Guinea, died.
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Alexander Bassano — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1902 Cecil Rhodes, British-South African mining magnate and colonial politician whose land seizures shaped southern Africa, died.
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