Wilson Dias/ABr — CC BY 3.0 br, Wikimedia Commons 1999 President Joao Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau was ousted in a military coup.
PoliticsOn this day — May 7 in African history
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Wilson Dias/ABr — CC BY 3.0 br, Wikimedia Commons 1999 An EgyptAir Boeing 737 crashed on approach to Tunis-Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people.
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1946 Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician regarded as a founding father of Nigerian nationalism, died.
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Willy Pragher — CC BY 3.0 de, Wikimedia Commons 1998 Allan McLeod Cormack, the South African-born physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for developing the theory behind CT scanning, died.
DeathEskender, who reigned as Emperor of Ethiopia, was born.
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