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.
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