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 (Library of Congress), Wikimedia Commons 1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley located the missing explorer David Livingstone at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, reportedly greeting him with the words "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
Sources: Project Gutenberg ; BBC History
CultureNigerian writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the military government along with eight fellow Ogoni activists, sparking international outrage.
Sources: Al Jazeera ; Goldman Environmental Prize
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CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1919 Moïse Tshombe, the Congolese politician who later led the secessionist State of Katanga, was born.
Sources: Academie royale des sciences d'outre-mer (Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer) ; Encyclopaedia Britannica
Birth