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.
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people in modern times to enter the interior chambers of Tutankhamun's tomb, finding it filled with golden treasures.
Sources: Griffith Institute, University of Oxford ; BBC News ; Historic UK
ScienceFrance launched Astérix, its first satellite, aboard a Diamant rocket from the Hammaguir launch site in the Algerian Sahara, becoming the third nation to launch a satellite on its own rocket.
Sources: NASA National Space Science Data Coordinated Archive ; CNES (Centre national d'etudes spatiales)
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