Anonymous, Rijksmuseum — CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1652 Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck established a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope for the Dutch East India Company, which grew into the city of Cape Town.
HistoryOn this day — April 6 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Anonymous, Rijksmuseum — CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1652 
Mister Jiff — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1985 Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry was ousted in a coup d'état led by Field Marshal Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab while Nimeiry was abroad.
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Wally H — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1994 The aircraft carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down over Kigali, an act that triggered the Rwandan genocide.
HistoryA general strike by Egyptian textile workers over low wages and rising food prices began, later inspiring the founding of the April 6 Youth Movement, a key force in the 2011 uprising.
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Habib Osman — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2000 Habib Bourguiba, who led Tunisia to independence from France and served as its first president from 1957 to 1987, died in Monastir.
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