- 2000 — The Arusha Accords are signed, ending the Burundian Civil War.
- 1998 — Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
- 1963 — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his I Have a Dream speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
- 1955 — Emmett Till, a Black teenager, is lynched in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
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Okello okalo kaa ga kala min okello penjo ni ere Kaka okello nyalo kelo kalo ka ga kala
Dholuo (Kenya)
Translation: Okello and his antics
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