Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1966 Basutoland gained full independence from the United Kingdom and was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho.
IndependenceOn this day — October 4 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1966 
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1992 The Rome General Peace Accords were signed, ending Mozambique's 16-year civil war.
PoliticsBasil D'Oliveira, South African-born cricketer whose exclusion from an England tour of South Africa exposed apartheid's grip on sport, was born in Cape Town.
Sports
U.S. News & World Report / Library of Congress — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1943 H. Rap Brown (later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin), American civil rights activist and SNCC chairman, was born.
Birth
U.S. National Archives — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1942 Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer and civil rights activist who founded the a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, was born.
CultureStan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and longtime foreign affairs minister, died.
DeathUlric Cross, Trinidadian RAF navigator, judge and diplomat who later served newly independent African governments including Ghana and Cameroon, died.
Death