Udo Haafke — GFDL, Wikimedia Commons 1970 A Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crashed near Berrechid, Morocco, killing all 61 people aboard.
DisasterOn this day — April 1 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Udo Haafke — GFDL, Wikimedia Commons 1970 
Amir Bernat — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1933 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Algerian-born French physicist who later won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on laser cooling, was born in Constantine, Algeria.
Birth
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1940 Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and founder of the Green Belt Movement who became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was born in Nyeri, Kenya.
Birth
Gilles Caron — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1943 Titina Silá, a leading commander of the PAIGC independence movement in Guinea-Bissau, was born; she was killed in action in 1973 shortly before independence was won.
BirthMoses Blah, who served as the 23rd President of Liberia in 2003 following the resignation of Charles Taylor, died in Monrovia.
Death