Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain (U.S. Navy), Wikimedia Commons 1942 Allied forces landed in French Morocco and Algeria as Operation Torch began, opening the North African campaign against Axis forces in World War II.
Sources: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ; BBC History
History
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1997 Eritrea introduced the nakfa as its national currency, replacing the Ethiopian birr and marking a milestone in the young nation's economic independence.
Sources: International Monetary Fund ; Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA)
Politics
CC BY 3.0 BR, Wikimedia Commons 2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won Liberia's presidential runoff election, becoming Africa's first elected female head of state.
Sources: Congressional Research Service (congress.gov) ; Nobel Prize (NobelPrize.org)
Politics