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.
Bernard Gotfryd, Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was deposed as Tanzanian-backed forces captured Kampala, ending his brutal eight-year rule.
Sources: The Observer (Uganda) ; TIME ; BBC World Service (Witness History)
Politics
upyernoz, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 2002 An al-Qaeda suicide truck bombing struck the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, killing 21 people, mostly German tourists.
Sources: Deutsche Welle ; Der Spiegel ; The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (CTC Sentinel)
History
Richard Vandervord, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2018 An Algerian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 military transport crashed shortly after takeoff near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257 people in one of the deadliest air disasters in African history.
Disaster
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1899 Percy Lavon Julian, African-American research chemist who pioneered the synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
Sources: U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), 110th Congress ; Encyclopedia of Alabama ; Science History Institute
Birth
République Algérienne, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2012 Ahmed Ben Bella died in Algiers. He had fought in the war against France, became independent Algeria's first president in 1963, and was overthrown two years later by his defence minister Houari Boumédiène, who held him under house arrest for fourteen years.
Sources: The Washington Post ; Gulf Times
Death