Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Photo Division, Government of India — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1950 South Africa's apartheid government passed the Group Areas Act, formally segregating cities and towns by race and forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
PoliticsBritain granted Zanzibar internal self-government, a precursor to full independence the following year.
Politics
Mabario — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1995 Nelson Mandela presented South Africa's Rugby World Cup-winning captain Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup, an iconic moment of post-apartheid reconciliation.
SportsA train derailment near Igandu, Tanzania, killed 281 people, the deadliest rail accident in African history.
Disaster
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1846 Samuel Johnson, the Nigerian Anglican priest whose History of the Yorubas became a foundational text of Yoruba historiography, was born.
Birth