A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC's armed wing, exploded on Church Street in Pretoria, South Africa, killing 19 people.
HistoryOn this day — May 20 in African history
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Napoleon Bonaparte reinstated slavery in French colonies, reversing its abolition during the French Revolution.
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1972 Cameroonians voted in a referendum to abolish the federal system and adopt a unitary state, a change now marked annually as Cameroon's National Day.
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Jmex60 — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1952 Roger Milla, the Cameroonian footballer whose exuberant corner-flag celebrations at the 1990 World Cup made him an African football icon, was born.
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Frank Hall — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1967 The Popular Movement of the Revolution, the single ruling party established by President Mobutu Sese Seko, was founded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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