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, Nationaal Archief (1960), CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons Katangan leader Moïse Tshombe declared the secession of the mineral-rich province from the newly independent Congo.
Sources: Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; Royal Museum for Central Africa
Politics
Photo by Antonio Olmedo (Flickr, 2010), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons Spain defeated the Netherlands in Johannesburg to win the FIFA World Cup final, the first World Cup hosted on African soil.
Sources: CBS News ; South African History Online
Sports
Unknown author, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons The British Mediterranean Fleet began the bombardment of Alexandria, Egypt, opening the Anglo-Egyptian War.
Sources: Royal Museums Greenwich ; Royal Marines History
HistoryFrance legislated for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), and Niger.
Sources: Digithèque de matériaux juridiques et politiques, Université de Perpignan ; Histoire et Philatélie
IndependenceNigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashed after takeoff in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew, most of them Nigerian pilgrims returning from Hajj.
Sources: Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives ; Tailstrike.com ; Simple Flying
DisasterIslamist militant group Al-Shabaab carried out coordinated suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people watching the World Cup final.
Sources: Al Jazeera ; France 24 ; Institute for Security Studies (ISS Africa)
Conflict