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.
Zvikorn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1967 The Six-Day War began as Israel launched surprise air strikes against Egyptian airfields, reshaping the geopolitics of North Africa and the Middle East for decades.
Sources: Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XIX) ; BBC News
Politics
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1873 Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closed the island's notorious slave market under treaty pressure from Britain, a landmark moment in ending the East African slave trade.
Sources: Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1873, Part I, Volume I) ; The Guardian
History
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1900 British forces captured Pretoria from Boer defenders during the Second Boer War.
Sources: South African History Online ; Australian War Memorial
HistoryUgandan and Rwandan forces fought each other in the streets of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, destroying much of the city in what became known as the Six-Day War of Kisangani.
Sources: JusticeInfo.net ; Friends of the Congo ; Human Rights Watch
Politics
U.S. Department of State, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1942 Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea since 1979, was born.
Sources: GlobalSecurity.org ; Biografias y Vidas ; Deutsche Welle
Birth
Jessicamarie145, CC0, Wikimedia Commons 2021 T. B. Joshua, the influential Nigerian televangelist and founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, died.
DeathuSuthu forces with Boer volunteers defeated Zibhebhu's Mandlakazi at Tshaneni, avenging their rout at Msebe and driving Zibhebhu into the British Reserve.
Sources: Internet Archive ; Jonathan Ball Publishers
Battle