U.S. Department of Defense — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1975 Mozambique gained independence from Portugal, with Samora Machel becoming the country's first president.
IndependenceOn this day — June 25 in African history
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Steve Lipofsky — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1966 Dikembe Mutombo, the Congolese-American basketball Hall of Famer and humanitarian, was born.
BirthThousands of protesters stormed Kenya's Parliament and set parts of it ablaze during nationwide demonstrations against a proposed finance bill.
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CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1933 James Meredith, who became the first Black student to attend the University of Mississippi, was born.
Civil RightsAdam Small, the South African writer whose Afrikaans poetry and plays gave powerful voice to Coloured identity under apartheid, died.
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