Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1932 Evelyn Preer, a pioneering African-American stage and film actress often called the "First Lady of the Screen" for Black performers, died in Los Angeles.
Sources: New York Amsterdam News ; The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
DeathSharlto Copley, the South African actor and director known for "District 9," was born in Johannesburg.
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Classical Numismatic Group, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1358 Abu Inan Faris, the Marinid sultan who had pushed Moroccan rule east over Tlemcen, Bijaya and, briefly, Tunis, was deposed in Fez by his vizier al-Hasan ibn Umar, who put a five-year-old son on the throne. The sultan, about 29 and already gravely ill, died two days later. Ibn Khaldun, then in Fez, recorded the report that the vizier had him strangled. The dynasty never recovered its reach.
Sources: Ibn Khaldun, Histoire des Berberes et des dynasties musulmanes de l'Afrique septentrionale, trans. Baron de Slane, vol. 4 (Algiers: Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1856), pp. 317-318, via Internet Archive ; The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1st ed., vol. I (Leiden: Brill; London: Luzac, 1913), pp. 115-116, via Internet Archive ; UNESCO General History of Africa, vol. IV (1984), ch. 4, I. Hrbek, 'The disintegration of political unity in the Maghrib', p. 92, via Internet Archive
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