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.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1999 Two Libyan intelligence agents suspected of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie were handed over by Libya for trial in the Netherlands under Scottish law.
Sources: United Nations Security Council (Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council) ; BBC News
Politics
Mathew Brady, Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1839 Robert Smalls, born into slavery in South Carolina, who later commandeered a Confederate transport ship to freedom and became a U.S. congressman, was born in Beaufort.
Sources: U.S. House of Representatives, History, Art & Archives ; National Park Service (U.S. Department of the Interior)
Birth
Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1856 Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, author, and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, was born into slavery in Hale's Ford, Virginia.
Sources: National Park Service (Booker T. Washington National Monument) ; Tuskegee University
Birth
Tanguy Jockmans, European Commission, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2011 Ange-Félix Patassé, who served as President of the Central African Republic from 1993 to 2003, died in Cameroon.
Sources: BBC News ; The Guardian
Death
U.S. Government photo, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2012 Bingu wa Mutharika, economist and President of Malawi from 2004 until his death, died of a heart attack in Lilongwe.
Death
OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 2019 Sydney Brenner, South African biologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002 for work on genetic regulation of organ development, died in Singapore.
Sources: Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation) ; Scripps Research
Death