Illustration from "The Great War" (ed. H.W. Wilson, 1917) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1916 The Battle of Delville Wood began during the Somme offensive, in which the South African Infantry Brigade suffered devastating casualties.
HistoryOn this day — July 15 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Illustration from "The Great War" (ed. H.W. Wilson, 1917) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1916 The first United Nations peacekeeping troops, from Ghana and Tunisia, arrived in Léopoldville, Congo.
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Hans Hillewaert — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1799 The Rosetta Stone was discovered in the Egyptian town of Rosetta by French soldiers during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, later becoming the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1930 Jacques Derrida, the influential Algerian-French philosopher who founded deconstruction, was born in El Biar, French Algeria.
BirthEskender, who ruled as Emperor of Ethiopia during a turbulent minority reign, was born.
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