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.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1980 The African National Congress published a call to arms from its imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela, smuggled out of Robben Island prison.
Sources: HISTORY (A&E Television Networks) ; Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Politics
USAID, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2024 A plane crash in northern Malawi killed ten people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima.
Sources: Government of Malawi (Office of the President and Cabinet) ; NBC News (Associated Press)
Politics
Keystone View Company, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1940 Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, founder of the Black Star Line and a towering figure in Black nationalist thought, died in London.
Sources: U.S. National Archives ; PBS (The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords)
DeathSudan Airways Flight 109 crashed while landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people.
Sources: The Aviation Herald ; Aviation Safety Network
Disaster
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Open Government Licence, Wikimedia Commons 2012 George Saitoti, a Kenyan economist and politician who served as Vice-President of Kenya, died in a helicopter crash.
Sources: San Diego Union-Tribune (Associated Press) ; Daily Nation
Death