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.
Neil Rickards, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 180 Twelve North African Christians, later known as the Scillitan Martyrs, were tried and sentenced to death in Carthage for refusing to renounce their faith.
Sources: Livius.org ; Christianity.com
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National Institutes of Health, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1959 Mary Leakey discovered the Paranthropus boisei skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, a landmark find in the study of human origins.
Sources: Linda Hall Library ; The Leakey Foundation
Science
Luciano Inostroza Budinich, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons More than two dozen African nations boycotted the opening ceremony of the Montreal Olympics in protest of a New Zealand rugby tour of apartheid South Africa.
Sources: The Conversation ; Medals Without Borders
Read the full article: The African Boycott of the 1976 Montreal Olympics
Politics
Prime Minister's Office of Japan, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1963 Letsie III, who later became King of Lesotho, was born in Morija.
Sources: Unofficial Royalty ; Lesotho News Agency
BirthFlorence Fuller, the South African-born painter celebrated for her portraits and Impressionist-influenced work, died at Gladesville, near Sydney, Australia.
Sources: Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO) ; My Daily Art Display
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