Historical Events
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Oliver Tambo becomes the Secretary-General of the African National Congress following the state banning of Walter Sisulu. -
Oliver Tambo freed from legal proceedings as the state withdraws treason charges against him.
- 1958 The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
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Tom Mboya elected chairman of the All-African Peoples' Conference in Accra, emerging as a leading Pan-African organizer. - 1960 (c.) British colonial authorities permit Fred Kubai and Kung'u Karumba to leave Lodwar under localized restriction orders. 🇰🇪 Kenya
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Mobutu Sese Seko's men arrest Patrice Lumumba for inciting the army to rebellion. -
Agostinho Neto elected President of the MPLA at the movement's first National Conference in Leopoldville. -
Mbiyu Koinange returns to a newly independent Kenya and wins election as Member of Parliament for the Kiambaa Constituency, anchoring the Kiambu elite's electoral base. - 1966 (c.) Kenya government appoints Brigadier Joseph Musyimi Lele Ndolo as Commander of the Kenya Army. 🇰🇪 Kenya
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A military tribunal convicts Nkrumah-era political figures Kojo Botsio and Imoru Ayarna of subversion against the NRC, marginalizing the old political elite. -
J. M. Kariuki threatened at the Stag's Head Hotel in Nakuru by Peter Muigai over his growing political influence. -
Ahmed Sékou Touré restores diplomatic relations with France, welcoming President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to Conakry. -
Paul Ngei loses his cabinet position and Kangundo parliamentary seat because bankruptcy laws bar him from public office. -
Richard Achieng Oneko wins the Rarieda Constituency parliamentary seat for Ford-Kenya in the first multi-party elections, returning to parliament after decades of political marginalization. -
Navin Ramgoolam suffers a landslide defeat in the general elections after proposing a 'Second Republic' constitutional reform with the MMM, losing the premiership and his Triolet parliamentary seat to Jugnauth's Alliance Lepep. -
Adama Barrow wins Gambia's presidential election, ending Yahya Jammeh's 22-year rule, which began with a coup.
Famous Births
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Yolandi Visser, a South African rapper and actress, is born. - 1992 Masahudu Alhassan, a Ghanaian footballer, is born.