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.
SKopp, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1960 France signed an agreement transferring internal autonomy toward independence to the Mali Federation of Senegal and French Sudan; Senegal commemorates this date as its Independence Day.
Sources: U.S. Department of State Background Notes (Clinton White House archive) ; RFI (Radio France Internationale)
IndependenceAngola's MPLA government and UNITA rebels signed a peace treaty, formally ending the 27-year Angolan Civil War.
Sources: United Nations Peacemaker (UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs) ; Peace Accords Matrix, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame ; Peace Agreement Access Tool (PA-X), University of Edinburgh
Politics
Jacob Crawfurd / WOMEX, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1939 Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter and composer known as the 'father of South African jazz,' was born in Witbank, South Africa.
Sources: Hugh Masekela official website ; CNN
Birth
Andriy Gridyushko, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2011 Georgian Airways Flight 834 crashed at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 32 of the 33 people aboard.
Sources: International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) ; BBC News ; Aviation Safety Network
Disaster
Nammarci, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2014 Kumba Yalá, president of Guinea-Bissau from 2000 until a military coup deposed him in 2003, died at a military hospital in Bissau at 61.
Sources: The Standard ; Associated Press
Death