On this day — June 28 in African history

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.

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.

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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.

The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marked out the colonial-era territorial boundary between Guinea and Sierra Leone.

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Elon Musk, the South African-born entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, was born in Pretoria.