On this day — June 7 in African history

Anti-Jewish riots broke out in the Moroccan towns of Oujda and Jerada, killing dozens amid regional tensions surrounding the creation of Israel.

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Mohandas Gandhi was thrown off a train at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, after refusing to move from a first-class carriage — an experience that helped shape his philosophy of civil disobedience.

The Organisation of African Unity formally admitted post-apartheid South Africa as its 53rd member.

An-Nasir Muhammad, the longest-reigning Mamluk sultan of Egypt whose rule marked a golden age of Cairo's architecture and trade, died.