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.
CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1967 Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American to lead a major U.S. city.
Sources: Case Western Reserve University, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ; National Park Service ; Teaching Cleveland Digital
PoliticsThe UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the withdrawal of British, French, and Israeli forces from Egyptian territory during the Suez Crisis.
Sources: PalQuest, Institute for Palestine Studies ; United Nations (UNISPAL, verbatim record A/PV.572, General Assembly)
PoliticsPrime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali seized power in Tunisia in a bloodless coup, having doctors declare longtime President Habib Bourguiba medically unfit to rule.
Sources: BBC News ; Encyclopedia.com (Encyclopedia of World Biography) ; Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1875 British explorer Verney Lovett Cameron reached the coast of what is now Angola, completing the first traverse of tropical Africa by a European from east to west.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica ; Princeton University Library
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