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.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Thomas Sankara, revolutionary President of Burkina Faso, was killed in a coup led by his former ally Blaise Compaoré.
Sources: BBC News ; The Guardian ; Encyclopaedia Britannica
Read the full articles: The CIA's 1986 Warning and the Coup That Killed Thomas Sankara · Sankara's Debt Speech to the OAU and His Assassination Three Months Later
Death
CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and political activist who pioneered Afrobeat, was born in Abeokuta.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica ; The Nation (Nigeria)
Culture
Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1993 Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were announced as joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their work ending apartheid.
Sources: Nobel Prize (NobelPrize.org) ; Nelson Mandela Foundation (mandela.gov.za archive)
PoliticsSomali President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards, a killing that led to a military coup six days later.
Sources: Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies (Óbuda University) ; African Union Library
DeathWillie O'Ree, who became the first Black player in the National Hockey League, was born in New Brunswick, Canada.
Sources: National Hockey League ; CBC News ; HISTORY (A&E Television Networks)
Sports