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.
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Open Government Licence, Wikimedia Commons 2007 Kenyans voted in a disputed presidential election; when Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner three days later, riots erupted across the country, including Mombasa, triggering the 2007-08 Kenyan crisis.
Sources: Human Rights Watch ; BBC News
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Politics
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1978 Houari Boumediene, the second President of Algeria who led the country for 13 years, died.
Sources: TIME ; French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (Diplomatic Archives)
DeathLucas Mangope, who led South Africa's Bophuthatswana homeland for over a decade, was born.
Sources: South African History Online ; The O'Malley Archives (Nelson Mandela Foundation)
Birth
Erik van Leeuwen, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons 1986 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the Jamaican sprinter who became one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history, was born.
Sources: World Athletics ; Jamaica Information Service
Birth
Dr. Avishai Teicher, PikiWiki Israel, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons 2014 Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, the African-American religious leader who founded the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem community, died.
Sources: Jewish Telegraphic Agency ; Los Angeles Times
Death