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When Cold War Tensions Brought American Bombs to Libya
On April 15, 1986, American warplanes crossed the Mediterranean toward Libya. Operation El Dorado Canyon was underway—a direct military response to the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin ten days earlier,...
Historical Events
13- 1789 Habitants of Saint-Louis draft a "Note of Grievances" for the French States-General. 🇸🇳 Senegal
- 1848 Governor Baudin issues a local proclamation on the abolition of slavery in Senegal. 🇸🇳 Senegal
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Haile Selassie and Gideon Force capture Dambacha Fort from Italian occupation. -
Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line. -
Walter Sisulu delivers speech in Sophiatown against apartheid forced removals. -
Nkrumah declares "African Freedom Day" at the 1st Conference of Independent African States. - 1960 Ella Baker leads a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. United States
- 1961 UN Resolution 1599 calls for the withdrawal of Belgian troops and mercenaries from Congo. 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1961 Founding of the Nigerian People's Party (NPP) as a revolutionary socialist group. 🇳🇬 Nigeria
- 1964 Simba Rebellion launches Kivu invasions under Louis Bidalira (alias Bitolero). 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1980 Ten OLF leaders are executed in the Shinniga desert; Oromo Martyrs Day is commemorated. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
- 1986 The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, bombing Libyan targets in response to the La Belle discotheque bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen and a Turkish woman. United States
- 2014 More than 400 civilians are gunned down in the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War after seeking refuge in houses of worship and hospitals. 🇸🇸 South Sudan
Famous Births
1- 1924 Richard Owen Dudley is born; he becomes a key intellectual in the Non-European Unity Movement. 🇿🇦 South Africa