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.
BirthOn 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.
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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.
HistoryNigeria's former military ruler Olusegun Obasanjo was charged before a military tribunal with conspiring to overthrow the government of Sani Abacha; he was later convicted and imprisoned for three years.
PoliticsA 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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