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Costly Bald
In 2017, a series of disturbing murders occurred in Mozambique, where five bald men were brutally killed. The motive behind these heinous acts was allegedly driven by a superstitious belief that the victims' hairless hea...
Historical Events
8- 1692 Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured. Jamaica
- 1862 The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade. Multiple
- 1892 Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the whites-only car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. United States
- 1896 Egyptian forces triumph in the Battle of Farkeh, defeating the Mahdist Sudanese defenders. 🇸🇩 Sudan
- 1917 Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway inaugurated, enhancing Ethiopian trade with a direct rail link to the sea. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
- 1962 The Organisation Armée Secrète sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books. 🇩🇿 Algeria
- 1971 Kenyan court convicts twelve civilian coup plotters and sentences them to eleven and a half years in prison. 🇰🇪 Kenya
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Hissène Habré's rebel army occupies N'djamena, the capital of Chad.
Famous Births
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Muammar Gaddafi, the first president of Lybia, is born.
