France and representatives of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic reached the Evian Accords, ending the Algerian War.
PoliticsOn this day — May 18 in African history
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.
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.
Birth
Florian K — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1981 Mahamadou Diarra, Malian international footballer and former captain, was born.
Birth
Kahn's Weiners — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2023 Jim Brown, the American football legend and civil rights activist, died.
Death