Belgian paratroopers, transported by U.S. aircraft, carried out Operation Dragon Rouge, dropping into Stanleyville in the Congo to rescue hundreds of hostages held by Simba rebels.
HistoryOn this day — November 24 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1974 Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered the fossilized skeleton of "Lucy," a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, at Hadar, Ethiopia, transforming the understanding of human evolution.
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