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Mt. Nyiragongo Eruption
In May 2021, Mount Nyiragongo, one of Africa's most active volcanoes situated in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, experienced a major eruption. The eruption unleashed a torrent of red-hot lava with...
Historical Events
12- 1848 Slavery is abolished in Martinique. Martinique
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Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. - 1863 American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history. United States
- 1863 Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson, which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history. United States
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Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers. -
President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
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A British army defeats a force of the Darfur Sultanate under Sultan Ali Dinar due to its superior firepower in the battle of Beringia. -
A British army defeats a force of the Darfur Sultanate under Sultan Ali Dinar in the battle of Beringia.
- 1957 South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities. 🇿🇦 South Africa
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A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. - 2002 Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. United States
- 2002 A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. United States
