Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1960 Gabon gained independence from France, with Léon M'ba becoming its first president.
Sources: BlackPast.org ; Radio France Internationale (RFI) ; Université de Perpignan (Jean-Pierre Maury, documents constitutionnels)
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George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1887 Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and inspired generations of Black nationalist movements, was born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.
Sources: Jamaica Information Service ; UCLA African Studies Center (Marcus Garvey Papers Project)
BirthRuth First, the South African anti-apartheid journalist and academic, was killed by a letter bomb sent by South African security agents to her office at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique.
Sources: South African History Archive (Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report, Vol. 2 Ch. 2) ; Mozambique History Net ; South African History Online
DeathMoses Majekodunmi, the Nigerian physician who served as the first federal administrator of the Western Region during a 1962 political crisis, was born.
Sources: ThisDay (Nigeria) ; The Nigerian Voice ; Blerf (Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation, Nigeria)
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