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.
Rob Mieremet, Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons Tanganyika, now mainland Tanzania, gained independence from Britain, with Julius Nyerere leading the new government.
Sources: legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives) ; TIME
Read the full article: Tanganyika's Independence, December 9, 1961
Independence Rob Mieremet, Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1962 Tanganyika became a republic exactly one year after independence, with Julius Nyerere becoming its first president.
Sources: legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives) ; UK Parliament (Hansard) ; Encyclopedia.com (Gale)
Read the full article: Tanganyika's Independence, December 9, 1961
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Mathew Brady / Levin Handy, Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1872 P. B. S. Pinchback became the first African-American governor of a U.S. state when he took office in Louisiana.
Sources: Social Welfare History Project, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries ; WWNO (New Orleans Public Radio)
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Stephen Kirrage, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1940 In World War II's Operation Compass, British and Indian troops attacked Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
Sources: BBC History ; The London Gazette (War Office despatch, Wavell, issue 37628)
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PHCM Terry C. Mitchell, U.S. DoD, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1992 American troops landed in Somalia to launch Operation Restore Hope, a UN-sanctioned humanitarian intervention.
Sources: U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian ; GlobalSecurity.org
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