Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
UK Government photo — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Allied forces including South African troops opened a new phase of the Madagascar campaign against Vichy French forces, landing at Majunga as part of Operations Stream, Line and Jane.
Sources: Brill, International Journal of Military History and Historiography ; Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies (Stellenbosch University)
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1960 Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila won the Olympic marathon in Rome running barefoot, becoming the first Black African Olympic gold medalist.
Sources: BBC ; World Athletics
Sports
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1974 Portugal formally recognized the independence of Guinea-Bissau, a year after the PAIGC's unilateral declaration, following the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon.
Sources: The New York Times ; Southern Africa magazine (Southern Africa Committee)
Independence
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2000 British paratroopers launched Operation Barras in Sierra Leone, freeing six captured British soldiers and helping bring an end to the country's brutal civil war.
Sources: National Army Museum (UK) ; BBC News ; The Guardian
History
Photo by Rob Mieremet / Anefo — CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1979 Agostinho Neto, the physician-poet who led Angola's independence movement and became its first president, died in Moscow while undergoing medical treatment.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica ; TIME
Death