- 1952 — Leaders of the pro-independence Kenya African Union, including Jomo Kenyatta, are arrested.
- 1956 — Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi, key leader of the Mau Mau Uprising, is captured by British colonial forces.
- 1928 — Marjorie Oludhe Macgoey, poet and novelist known as the mother of Kenyan literature, is born.
- 1969 — Siad Barre leads a bloodless coup establishing a Marxist-Leninist administration in Somalia.
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Okello okalo kaa ga kala min okello penjo ni ere Kaka okello nyalo kelo kalo ka ga kala
Dholuo (Kenya)
Translation: Okello and his antics
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