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October
19

Today in African History

Historical Events

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  • ⚠️ 2013 16 people are killed and more than 30 are wounded after a suicide bomber blows himself up in a crowded restaurant in Beledweyne, Somalia.

Famous Births

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  • Yakubu Gowon
    1934
    Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian general and politician, 3rd Head of State of Nigeria, is born.
  • 🌟 1956 Santu Mofokeng, a South African photographer, is born.

Famous Deaths

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  • Richard Meinertzhagen
    1878 – 1967
    Koitalel Arap Samoei, leader of the Nandi people of Kenya, is assassinated by Richard Meinertzhagen, a British intelligence agent.
  • Samora Machel
    1933 – 1986
    Samora Machel, the first president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash.
  • Samora Machel
    1933 – 1986 🇿🇦 South Africa
    Samora Machel killed when his Soviet-crewed Tupolev Tu-134A-3 crashes into a hillside at Mbuzini in the Lebombo Mountains, along with thirty-three others, after a regional summit in Zambia.

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