Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Photographer unknown, Anefo / Nationaal Archief — CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons 1960 Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and President Joseph Kasa-Vubu cabled the United Nations requesting military assistance against Belgian intervention.
Politics
Photo by Kenneth E. Noyes, U.S. Air Force / NARA (1986) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1975 São Tomé and Príncipe gained independence from Portugal, with Manuel Pinto da Costa becoming its first president.
Independence
Photo by Helene C. Stikkel, U.S. Department of Defense (2001) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2003 US President George W. Bush met Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to discuss relocating former Liberian President Charles Taylor into exile in Nigeria.
PoliticsA fuel tanker explosion in Okobie, Nigeria, killed more than 100 people.
DisasterČSA Flight 511 crashed at Casablanca-Anfa Airport in Morocco, killing 72 people.
Disaster
Ukkel — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2010 Pius Njawé, a pioneering Cameroonian journalist and press-freedom advocate who founded the newspaper Le Messager, died in a car accident in the United States.
Death