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.
Northern Somalia declared independence from the rest of Somalia as the self-declared Republic of Somaliland.
Sources: Constitution of the Republic of Somaliland (2001), hosted by Justice Snapshot ; Somaliland Law (AHNUR briefing paper) ; BBC News
History
Commonwealth of Learning (COL), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1912 Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid leader and ANC secretary-general, was born.
Sources: Mail & Guardian ; South African History Online
Birth
Florian K, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1981 Mahamadou Diarra, Malian international footballer and former captain, was born.
Sources: National Football Teams (Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann) ; FotMob
Birth
Kahn's Weiners, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2023 Jim Brown, the American football legend and civil rights activist, died.
Sources: Cleveland Browns ; The New York Times
Death