An Angolan court sentenced foreign mercenaries captured during the country's civil war to death or long prison terms at the conclusion of the widely publicized Luanda Trial.
Sources: BBC News (On This Day) ; The New York 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 28 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Chris Hani, the South African anti-apartheid leader and head of the ANC's armed wing whose 1993 assassination nearly derailed the country's democratic transition, was born.
Sources: University of Cape Town News ; South African Communist Party
Read the full article: Chris Hani: The Assassination That Nearly Broke South Africa's Transition
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NASA, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1911 The Nakhla meteorite fell to Earth near Alexandria, Egypt; decades later it became one of the first meteorites suggested to show signs of ancient water activity on Mars.
Sources: Smithsonian Magazine ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (via PubMed Central) ; EarthSky
ScienceThe Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marked out the colonial-era territorial boundary between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Sources: U.S. Department of State, Office of the Geographer, Bureau of Intelligence and Research ; Library of Congress
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Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1971 Elon Musk, the South African-born entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, was born in Pretoria.
Sources: The Guardian ; Business Insider
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