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Four Girls, One Bomb: Birmingham's Reckoning with Terror
On September 15, 1963, a bomb detonated beneath the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young African-American girls were killed in the blast—a act of white supremacist violence that would reverberate...
Celebrated across Africa on this day
2Historical Events
6- 1795 Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic. 🇿🇦 South Africa
- 1952 The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia. 🇪🇷 Eritrea
- 1960 (c.) The African American Students Foundation transports 295 East African scholars to New York across four chartered flights funded by the Kennedy Foundation. United States
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Ahmed Ben Bella is elected the first president of Algeria. - 1963 Baptist Church bombing: Four children are killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. United States
- 1977 Air Seychelles is established following the merger of Air Mahe and Inter-Island Airways. 🇸🇨 Seychelles
Famous Births
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Emmerson Mnangagwa, the President of Zimbabwe, is born. -
Yoweri Museveni, the President of Uganda, is born. -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian writer, is born.