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.
Spain declared war on Morocco, beginning the Hispano-Moroccan War.
Sources: Hispania, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Serrallonga Urquidi, Joan, 'La guerra de África y el cólera (1859-60)', Hispania 58, no. 198, 1998) ; European University Institute (Goikolea-Amiano, Itzea, PhD thesis, 2017)
PoliticsBellview Airlines Flight 210 crashed shortly after takeoff in Nigeria, killing all 117 people aboard.
Sources: Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives ; TheCable (Nigeria) ; Simple Flying
PoliticsKoos de la Rey, Boer general who became a leading South African military commander in the Second Boer War, was born.
Sources: South African Military History Society (Journal, vol. 19 no. 3, December 2021) ; South African History Online
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1936 Bobby Seale, American activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party, was born.
Sources: U.S. National Archives ; Encyclopaedia Britannica
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UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Open Government Licence, Wikimedia Commons 1939 Joaquim Chissano, who served as the second President of Mozambique, was born.
Sources: Cambridge University Press ; Club de Madrid ; BBC Portuguese Africa
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