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.
Public Domain (official U.S. government portrait), Wikimedia Commons 2020 In the U.S. presidential election held on this date, Kamala Harris was elected the first Black, South Asian, and female Vice President of the United States.
Sources: BBC News ; Associated Press (GBH News)
PoliticsDwight Yorke, the Trinidadian footballer who became a Premier League and UEFA Champions League winner with Manchester United, was born.
Sources: worldfootball.net ; The Independent ; mufcinfo.com Manchester United archive
BirthColin Kaepernick, the American football quarterback who later became a prominent figure in protests against racial injustice, was born.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica ; BlackPast.org ; Biography.com
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Romanian Communism Online Photo Collection, CC BY, Wikimedia Commons 1996 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the former army chief who ruled the Central African Republic and briefly proclaimed himself emperor, died at his home in Bangui aged 75.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica ; Granta
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