Mark Renders / European Communities, 1998, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1947 Jerry Rawlings, who twice seized power in Ghana and later governed as an elected president, was born.
Sources: Ghana News Agency ; Los Angeles Times
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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 22 in African history
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Mark Renders / European Communities, 1998, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1947 
European Communities / Jean-Louis Debaize, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2017 Quett Masire, who served as Botswana's second president and oversaw decades of steady economic growth, died.
Sources: African Union Commission ; Botswana Daily News (Government of Botswana)
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1793 French Republican troops and Black insurgents captured Cap-Français during the Haitian Revolution, a turning point in the uprising that would lead to Haiti's independence.
Sources: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University ; Organization of American Historians (The American Historian)
HistoryA bomb blast in a Johannesburg video-game arcade killed an unborn child and injured ten people amid a wave of political violence in apartheid-era South Africa.
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