Painting by Beatrice Playne, Addis Ababa University — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1935 Italian forces invaded Ethiopia without a declaration of war, beginning the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
PoliticsOn this day — October 3 in African history
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Painting by Beatrice Playne, Addis Ababa University — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1935 Eighteen US soldiers and hundreds of Somalis were killed in the Battle of Mogadishu, a turning point in the US intervention in Somalia.
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Photo by Vogler — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1991 Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist and anti-apartheid activist, was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
CultureKomla Dumor, Ghanaian journalist who became a leading BBC World News broadcaster, was born in Accra.
BirthMichael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian educator and politician who served as governor of Ondo State, died.
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