Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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Unknown, after Allan Stewart — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1893 A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Ndebele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland, present-day Zimbabwe.
BattleAlpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity for African Americans, was founded at Cornell University.
Culture
Official U.S. Navy Photograph — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1950 Jesse L. Brown, the U.S. Navy's first African-American naval aviator, was killed in action during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in Korea.
History
Fototeca online a comunismului românesc — Attribution, Wikimedia Commons 1977 Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowned himself Emperor Bokassa I of the newly declared Central African Empire.
Politics
Madden, based on FOTW — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1981 South Africa granted independence to the Ciskei "homeland," a Bantustan not recognized by any government outside South Africa.
Politics
PHCM Terry C. Mitchell, U.S. DoD — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1992 U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered 28,000 American troops to Somalia to launch Operation Restore Hope.
Politics