South African Defence Force paratroopers attacked a SWAPO refugee and military camp at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing several hundred people, an event Namibia commemorates as Cassinga Day.
HistoryOn this day — May 4 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
A pair of bomb blasts tore through buses in Nairobi, Kenya, killing several people and wounding dozens more.
History
Production company — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1898 Umm Kulthum, the Egyptian singer revered across the Arab world as the 'Star of the East', was born.
Birth
YantsImages — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1981 Ruth Negga, Ethiopian-Irish actress, was born.
Birth
Chin Yu Chu — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1981 Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroonian midfielder, was born.
BirthRashidi Yekini, Nigeria's all-time record goalscorer and 1994 World Cup star, died.
Death