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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
5- 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
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Ahmed Ben Bella is elected the first president of Algeria. - 1977 Air Seychelles is established following the merger of Air Mahe and Inter-Island Airways. 🇸🇨 Seychelles
- 2001 Time magazine profiles Brenda Fassie as the Madonna of the Townships 🇿🇦 South Africa
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. -
Born in Enugu, Nigeria