Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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Fanny Schertzer — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1994 Rwandan government soldiers killed Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana and the ten Belgian peacekeepers assigned to protect her, and systematic massacres of Tutsi began. The United Nations estimates that more than a million people were killed before the Rwandan Patriotic Front took military control on 4 July, and that between 150,000 and 250,000 women were raped.
Source: United Nations
HistoryBooker T. Washington became the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
CultureFrancoist Spain agreed to surrender its protectorate in Morocco, completing the process of Moroccan independence begun weeks earlier with France.
Independence
Dutch National Archives (ANeFo) — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1972 Abeid Karume, the first President of Zanzibar and a key architect of the union that formed Tanzania, was assassinated in Zanzibar City.
DeathBabatunde Olatunji, Nigerian-American drummer and educator whose album 'Drums of Passion' introduced African percussion to a global audience, was born in Ajido, Nigeria.
Birth