Public Domain (Cuba), Wikimedia Commons 1924 Amílcar Cabral, the anti-colonial leader who founded the PAIGC and led the independence movements of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, was born in Bafatá, Portuguese Guinea.
BirthOn this day — September 12 in African history
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Public Domain (Cuba), Wikimedia Commons 1924 
Public Domain (Ethiopia), Wikimedia Commons Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was deposed by a military junta known as the Derg, ending 44 years of imperial rule.
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, founder of South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement, died from injuries sustained in police custody in Pretoria at age 30.
DeathA guesthouse at the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos, Nigeria collapsed, killing 115 people, most of them foreign worshippers.
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Photo by NASA — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1992 Mae Jemison became the first African American woman in space aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-47.
HistoryThe city that became Salisbury, later renamed Harare, was founded by the Pioneer Column in Mashonaland, going on to serve as the capital of Rhodesia and then independent Zimbabwe.
HistoryThe African and Malagasy Union, an early bloc of newly independent Francophone African states that cooperated on economic and diplomatic policy, was founded.
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