Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Portrait by M. Eug. Piron, Paris (1896), British Library — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1852 Barney Barnato, a diamond magnate who helped shape South Africa's mining industry, was born in London.
Sources: The Heritage Portal ; History Today
Birth
Unknown author (Force Publique on parade, late 1940s) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1960 Congolese soldiers of the Force Publique mutinied against their Belgian officers at Thysville, triggering the Congo Crisis.
Sources: U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian ; Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium) - INDEPENDANCE! exhibition
Politics
UtCon Collection (FLN delegation at Évian, 1962) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Algeria marked its official Independence Day, a date chosen to coincide with the anniversary of the 1830 French invasion.
Sources: OUPblog (Oxford University Press) ; Encyclopaedia Britannica
Independence
Editor at Large and Waldir — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1975 Cape Verde gained independence from Portugal.
Sources: U.S. Department of State (archived Background Notes) ; Encyclopaedia Britannica
IndependenceGermany took possession of Togo, establishing a colonial protectorate in West Africa, after commissioner Gustav Nachtigal signed a protection treaty with representatives of King Mlapa III at Baguida.
Sources: African Heritage (afrolegends.com), reproducing the treaty text sourced to Horst Grunder, "Geschichte der deutschen Kolonien" ; Encyclopaedia Britannica
History
Photo by Alexander Bassano — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1853 Cecil Rhodes, the English-South African businessman and politician who became Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and whose diamond and mining empire shaped southern Africa, was born in Bishop's Stortford, England.
Sources: Bishop's Stortford and Thorley: A History and Guide ; African American Registry
Birth
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1973 Juvénal Habyarimana seized power in Rwanda in a military coup, ousting President Grégoire Kayibanda.
Sources: Voice of America ; Encyclopaedia Britannica ; Survivors Fund (SURF)
Politics