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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Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for negotiating the peaceful end of apartheid.
Sources: Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation) ; Nelson Mandela Foundation / South African Government
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Echando una mano, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1996 South Africa's new post-apartheid Constitution was signed into law by President Nelson Mandela.
Sources: Parliament of the Republic of South Africa ; South African History Online
PoliticsEgyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the Camp David Accords.
Sources: Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation) ; Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Rémih, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1902 The reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam in Egypt was formally opened.
Sources: Grace's Guide to British Industrial History ; Structurae
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Aero Icarus, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons (aircraft of the same type involved) 2005 Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashed at Port Harcourt International Airport in Nigeria, killing 108 people, most of them schoolchildren.
Sources: CNN ; Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives ; NBC News (Associated Press)
TragedyPresident Nnamdi Azikiwe broadcast a warning over the conduct of the coming federal election, saying it was better that Nigerians "should disintegrate in peace and not in pieces." The Northern premier, Ahmadu Bello, replied the same day that the constitution had "no provision for secession or disintegration."
Sources: The Journal of Modern African Studies ; The Journal of Modern African Studies
Read the full article: Regions, Census and Elections: Nigeria's Road to Crisis, 1945-1965
PoliticsKongo chiefs allied with Tulante Álvaro Buta attacked São Salvador, the kingdom's capital, in a revolt against King Manuel Kiditu over forced recruitment of laborers for Portuguese plantations. They looted and burned the town's Catholic quarters, including the king's, and left the Portuguese administration untouched.
Source: University of Wisconsin Press
Read the full article: Kongo, Central Africa's Christian Kingdom
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