Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons Patrice Lumumba arrived in Washington, D.C. on a diplomatic tour of the United States that contributed to his falling out with Western powers.
PoliticsOn this day — July 27 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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US Department of Transportation, Public Domain, Wikimedia/Wikipedia 1963 Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor of an early gas mask and a three-position traffic signal, died.
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Warren K. Leffler / Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1985 Ugandan President Milton Obote was overthrown in a military coup led by Brigadier Bazilio Olara-Okello.
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Unknown author, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2011 The African Union announced it would admit South Sudan as its 54th member state.
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Sgt. Fox, No. 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit (Imperial War Museums) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1942 Allied forces halted the final Axis advance into Egypt at the First Battle of El Alamein during World War II.
HistoryAbout 50 people were killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre during Algeria's civil war.
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Rebecca Hearfield / Ilagardien, derivative by Jacek555 — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1994 Kevin Carter, the South African photojournalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for his haunting photograph of a Sudanese famine victim, died in Johannesburg.
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Mblegacy — CC0, Wikimedia Commons 2008 Youssef Chahine, the pioneering Egyptian film director whose work spanned five decades of Arab cinema, died in Cairo.
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