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Caster Semenya
Caster Semenya is a world-renowned South African athlete and middle-distance runner, born in 1991. She gained international attention in 2009 when she won the women's 800m race at the World Championships in Berlin, setti...
Historical Events
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- 1807 The Slave Trade Act 1807 takes effect, abolishing the slave trade within the British Empire. United Kingdom
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Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile as Italy invades Ethiopia. -
Mbiyu Koinange departs for England to represent the Kenya African Union, presenting land petitions and pressing for colonial constitutional reform. -
Joseph Murumbi returns to Kenya following the restoration of Italian authority in Somalia, and is introduced to the Kenya African Union (KAU) leadership by his close friend Pio Gama Pinto. -
Njoroge Mungai appointed secretary to the preparatory committee that founds the Kenya African National Union (KANU), Kenya's dominant political party. -
Tom Mboya helps form the Kenya African National Union and assumes office as its first Secretary-General. - 1962 1st French underground nuclear test in the Sahara at Ecker, Algeria. 🇩🇿 Algeria
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Richard Achieng Oneko wins the Nakuru Town Constituency parliamentary seat, demonstrating trans-ethnic appeal in a cosmopolitan urban center outside his Luo homeland. -
Paul Ngei leads the African People's Party to major electoral victories across Ukambani during Kenya's pre-independence elections. -
Godfrey Binaisa resigns as Attorney General following disagreements with Obote over presidential detention powers, which he views as an erosion of constitutional checks. - 1970 (c.) Major General Joseph Ndolo asks Yatta MP Gideon Munyao Mutiso to draft a political manifesto justifying a military takeover. 🇰🇪 Kenya
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Clemens Kapuuo's murder cited by Pretoria as justification for Operation Reindeer, the largest South African airborne offensive since World War II, which strikes the SWAPO base at Cassinga in Angola and kills over 1,200 people. -
Charles Njonjo elected unopposed to the National Assembly for the Kikuyu Constituency in a by-election held after the sitting MP's resignation. -
Paul Ngei and his family evicted from their Garden Estate home after court-ordered auction proceedings.
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Liverpool's Egyptian soccer forward Mohamed Salah becomes the first African to be named England Football Writers' Footballer of the Year. -
Two-time South African Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya loses appeal against proposed rules to limit her testosterone levels.
Famous Births
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1927 – Albert Zafy, 3rd President of Madagascar, is born. -
Albert Zafy, 3rd President of Madagascar, is born.
