Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Sergey Sosnovskiy (photograph of ancient Roman marble bust), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons -30 Mark Antony won a final, short-lived victory over Octavian's forces outside Alexandria before his army deserted en masse, hastening the fall of Ptolemaic Egypt.
History
Unknown author, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1885 Marthinus de Villiers, composer of the melody later used in South Africa's national anthem 'Die Stem', was born in Paarl.
BirthSouth African anti-apartheid activist Fatima Meer was banned for a second time and barred from public gatherings.
Politics
Blake Photography — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1874 Patrick Francis Healy became the first African American to be inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
Education
Unknown author — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1854 Arthur Barclay, who served as the 15th president of Liberia, was born.
Birth
Matematicamente.it — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2016 Seymour Papert, the South African-born mathematician and computer scientist whose work on constructionist learning and the Logo programming language shaped educational technology, died.
Death