Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Unknown author (Nobel Foundation), Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1967 Anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Luthuli died near his home in Groutville, South Africa.
Sources: South African History Online ; The Conversation ; Independent Online (IOL)
Death
Orlova-tpe, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons The Aswan High Dam on the Nile was completed after eleven years of construction.
Sources: National Geographic Education ; History.com
Science
Unknown author (US National Archives), Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1977 Fighting broke out between Egypt and Libya in the brief Egyptian-Libyan War.
Sources: OnWar.com (Armed Conflict Events Data) ; Arab America
PoliticsA massive earthquake off Crete triggered a tsunami that devastated the coasts of Libya and Egypt, especially Alexandria, killing many thousands.
Sources: Scientific Reports (Nature, via PMC) ; IMPERIUM ROMANUM ; History.com
History
François-Louis-Joseph Watteau — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1798 Napoleon's forces defeated an Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo at the Battle of the Pyramids.
Sources: World History Encyclopedia ; HistoryOfWar.org
History
Manny's Baseball Land — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1959 Pumpsie Green became the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last Major League Baseball team to integrate.
Sources: Sports Illustrated ; WBUR Cognoscenti
History
Simon Wedege — CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1944 John Atta Mills, who later became president of Ghana, was born.
Sources: Ghana Weekend ; ThinkNewsOnline
Birth
oficinalis — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1921 Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, the Zulu sangoma, sculptor, and author who became a prominent voice on Zulu traditional culture, was born.
Sources: South African History Online ; The Conversation
Birth