The El Asnam earthquake struck Algeria's Chelif valley, killing about 2,500 people and destroying tens of thousands of homes.
ScienceOn this day — October 10 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
US President Dwight Eisenhower apologized to Ghana's finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service at a segregated Delaware restaurant.
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Library of Congress — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1825 Paul Kruger, Boer military and political leader who served as President of the South African Republic, was born.
BirthKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and environmental activist executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 over his Ogoni rights campaign, was born.
BirthAlly Kleist Sykes, Tanzanian politician and founding member of the Tanganyika African National Union, was born in Dar es Salaam.
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