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.
Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons The Belgian Congo gained independence as the Republic of the Congo, with Patrice Lumumba becoming the country's first prime minister.
Sources: UN News ; The Guardian
Read the full article: Congo's Independence Day, 1960: Baudouin's Speech and Lumumba's Reply
Independence
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1936 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia delivered a historic appeal to the League of Nations in Geneva, condemning Italy's invasion of his country.
Sources: SWI swissinfo.ch ; Library of Congress
Read the full article: Haile Selassie's 1936 Appeal to the League of Nations
History
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1989 A coup d'état in Sudan led by Colonel Omar al-Bashir deposed the elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, beginning three decades of military rule.
Sources: Al Jazeera ; The Guardian
Politics
Lilian Wagdy, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 2013 Massive protests erupted across Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi, setting the stage for the military's ouster of his government days later.
Sources: The Guardian ; CBS News
Politics
Michel-georges bernard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1936 Assia Djebar, the celebrated Algerian novelist and filmmaker who became the first Maghrebi writer elected to the Académie française, was born.
Sources: Académie française ; Qantara.de
Birth
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1974 Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr. and a lifelong civil rights advocate, was shot and killed while playing the organ at her church.
Sources: The Guardian ; Stanford University, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Civil Rights