Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Ida B. Wells, journalist and pioneering anti-lynching campaigner, was born into slavery in Mississippi.
Sources: National Women's History Museum ; National Park Service
BirthOn this day — July 16 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 
Pressens Bild, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1960 Belgian troops began withdrawing from Léopoldville as United Nations peacekeepers arrived to take over security duties.
Sources: Government of Canada, Department of National Defence ; United Nations Peacekeeping
Politics
Unknown author — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1931 Emperor Haile Selassie signed Ethiopia's first written constitution.
Sources: Library of Congress Federal Research Division (Country Studies) ; Caribbean National Weekly
PoliticsAn Antonov An-24 crashed near Baney in Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people.
Sources: Al Jazeera ; Mail & Guardian ; Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives (BAAA-ACRO)
Disaster
Silas2233 — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1990 Wizkid, the Nigerian singer and songwriter who became one of Afrobeats' biggest global stars, was born in Lagos.
Sources: The Guardian (Nigeria) ; TheFamousPeople.com
Birth
Ons eerste halfeeu 1910–1960 — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1982 Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician who served as the country's first State President, died.
Sources: South African History Online ; Encyclopaedia of South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance (ESAT), Stellenbosch University
Death