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Bernard Gotfryd / Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Idi Amin was elected chairman of the Organisation of African Unity.
PoliticsOn this day — July 28 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Bernard Gotfryd / Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 
Unknown author (1917 newsreel still) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1917 The Silent Parade, a march of thousands of African Americans down New York City's Fifth Avenue, protested lynchings and racial violence.
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M.husseiny1 — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2011 Abdul Fatah Younis, a rebel military commander during the Libyan Civil War, was killed.
DeathMustafa Adrisi, the Ugandan general and politician who served as vice president under Idi Amin, died.
DeathSossina M. Haile, the Ethiopian-American chemist and engineer renowned for her pioneering work on fuel cell technology, was born.
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