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.
U.S. Department of Defense, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1975 Mozambique gained independence from Portugal, with Samora Machel becoming the country's first president.
Sources: US Department of State, Office of the Historian (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, vol. XXVIII) ; Encyclopedia.com (Gale)
Independence
Steve Lipofsky, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1966 Dikembe Mutombo, the Congolese-American basketball Hall of Famer and humanitarian, was born.
Sources: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame ; The Philadelphia Inquirer
BirthThousands of protesters stormed Kenya's Parliament and set parts of it ablaze during nationwide demonstrations against a proposed finance bill.
Politics
CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1933 James Meredith, who became the first Black student to attend the University of Mississippi, was born.
Sources: Mississippi Today ; Mississippi Legislature
Civil RightsAdam Small, the South African writer whose Afrikaans poetry and plays gave powerful voice to Coloured identity under apartheid, died.
Sources: South African History Online ; University of the Western Cape
Death