Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Photo by Robert Knudsen, White House/JFK Library, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Guinea declared independence from France under Ahmed Sékou Touré, becoming the first French West African colony to break fully from Paris.
Sources: BBC News ; University of Toronto (Mairi MacDonald, PhD thesis)
Independence
1831 woodcut, Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1800 Nat Turner, who later led an 1831 rebellion of enslaved people in Virginia, was born into slavery.
Sources: National Geographic ; Project Gutenberg (Thomas R. Gray, The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831) ; National Park Service
Birth
Photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran, U.S. News & World Report / Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Sources: Federal Judicial Center ; HISTORY (A+E Networks)
Politics
CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons 1967 Frankie Fredericks, Namibian sprinter and four-time Olympic silver medalist, was born in Windhoek.
Sources: Olympedia ; Confederation of African Athletics (CAA)
Sports
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1981 Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American jazz pianist, singer and civil rights activist, died.
Sources: National Women's History Museum ; PBS American Masters
Death