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.
Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania signed the Madrid Accords, under which Spain agreed to cede administrative control of Western Sahara, a decision that has fueled a territorial dispute ever since.
Sources: United Nations Treaty Collection ; Spanish Yearbook of International Law (SYbIL)
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1922 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian diplomat who became the first Arab and first African Secretary-General of the United Nations, was born in Cairo.
Sources: UN News ; The Guardian ; TIME
Birth
Cape Argus/Associated Press, 1977, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1977 An inquest into the death in custody of anti-apartheid Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko opened in Pretoria, drawing worldwide media attention to South Africa's detention practices.
Sources: South African History Online ; Nelson Mandela Foundation - O'Malley Archives
DeathSir Arthur Havelock told the uSuthu leaders at Eshowe that 'the rule of the House of Chaka is a thing of the past. It is dead. It is like water spilt on the ground. The Queen rules now in Zululand and no one else.'
Sources: Internet Archive ; Jonathan Ball Publishers
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