Napoleon Bonaparte's expeditionary force set sail from France to invade Egypt.
Sources: Fondation Napoleon (napoleon.org) ; The Napoleon Series
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Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
On this day: May 19 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Associated Press, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1925 Malcolm X, the American Muslim minister and human rights activist, was born.
Sources: U.S. National Archives ; U.S. National Park Service
Birth
Creator:Bernie Faingold, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1963 Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' was published in the New York Post Sunday Magazine.
Sources: Encyclopedia of Alabama (Auburn University) ; Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University
Civil Rights
Christian Malanga, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons Christian Malanga, a Congolese politician and businessman, was killed while leading a failed coup attempt in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sources: CBS News ; South China Morning Post (Agence France-Presse) ; NPR
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