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.
HistoryOn this day — July 17 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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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.
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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.
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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.
BirthFlorence Fuller, the South African-born painter celebrated for her portraits and Impressionist-influenced work, died in Melbourne, Australia.
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