- 1964 — Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and other anti-apartheid leaders are sentenced to life imprisonment in Pretoria, South Africa.
- 1963 — NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi, by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
- 1993 — Moshood Abiola wins Nigerian election, results later annulled by Ibrahim Babangida's military government.
- 1821 — Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending that Sudanese kingdom.
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Juzi mjuzi akala mchuzi wa mjusi.
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Translation: The day before yesterday the wise man ate some lizard soup.
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An angry crowd surged through the gates of the president's palace.
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