Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Ida B. Wells, journalist and pioneering anti-lynching campaigner, was born into slavery in Mississippi.
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.
Politics
Unknown author — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1931 Emperor Haile Selassie signed Ethiopia's first written constitution.
PoliticsAn Antonov An-24 crashed near Baney in Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people.
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.
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.
Death