Joseph Ki-Zerbo, the Burkinabé historian and politician renowned for his pioneering work on pan-African history, was born.
BirthOn this day — June 21 in African history
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Ubkoumbogny — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1957 French colonial troops fired on a crowd at the Hoda market in northern Togoland that had gathered over the arrest of the nationalist Bouyo Moukpé, killing twenty people. Togo keeps 21 June as Martyrs' Day, a public holiday since 2021, for all those who died in the independence struggle.
Sources: République Togolaise ; Éditions Bibliomonde
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2001 Soad Hosny, one of the most celebrated actresses and singers in Egyptian cinema history, known as the "Cinderella of the Egyptian screen," died.
DeathThree American civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by Ku Klux Klan members in Mississippi while registering Black voters.
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