Photo by Harry Burton, The Griffith Institute — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1922 Archaeologist Howard Carter's excavation team discovered the first steps leading down to the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
ScienceOn this day — November 4 in African history
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Photo by Harry Burton, The Griffith Institute — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1922 British South Africa Company forces occupied Bulawayo after King Lobengula burned his capital rather than let it fall into British hands, three days after the Battle of Bembezi.
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CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 2008 Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States, becoming the first African American to win the presidency.
PoliticsThe Tigray War began as fighting erupted between Ethiopian federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front in northern Ethiopia.
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