Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1960 Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) gained independence from France, with Maurice Yaméogo as its first president.
Sources: The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara ; U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
Independence
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1962 Nelson Mandela was arrested near Howick, South Africa, after 17 months evading police as the "Black Pimpernel," the start of an imprisonment that would last until 1990.
Sources: The Heritage Portal ; The Presidency, Republic of South Africa
History
Acme News Photos — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1936 Jesse Owens won his third Berlin Olympics gold medal, in the 200 meters.
Sources: U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame ; Yahoo Sports (Deseret News archive)
SportsSameera Moussa, the Egyptian nuclear physicist who championed the peaceful use of atomic energy for medical treatment, died in a car accident in the United States.
Sources: State Information Service, Arab Republic of Egypt ; Physics Today (American Institute of Physics)
DeathOtema Allimadi, who served as Uganda's prime minister from 1980 to 1985 after an earlier term as foreign minister, died.
Sources: WorldAtlas ; Biographies.net
DeathHawa Abdi, the Somali physician known as "Mama Hawa" who sheltered tens of thousands of displaced people at her clinic during Somalia's civil war, died at age 73.
Sources: Anadolu Agency ; Global Citizen
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