Crowds attacked Jews in Oujda and the mining town of Jerada in eastern Morocco, weeks after the founding of Israel and in a border town used to move Moroccan Jews toward Algeria. Forty-four people were killed, five at Oujda and thirty-nine at Jerada, and about sixty were wounded. The killings drove a wave of Jewish emigration from Morocco.
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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: June 7 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1893 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.
Sources: Msunduzi Municipality (City of Pietermaritzburg) ; High Commission of India, Pretoria
HistoryAn-Nasir Muhammad, the longest-reigning Mamluk sultan of Egypt whose rule marked a golden age of Cairo's architecture and trade, died.
Sources: MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT) ; Encyclopaedia Britannica
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