- 1975 — Angola gains independence from Portugal.
- 1961 — Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen deployed to the Congo as part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
- 1914 — Taslim Olawale Elias, a Nigerian judge and the first African to be President of the International Court of Justice, is born.
- 2013 — One hundred people are killed in a tropical cyclone in the Puntland region, Somalia.
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Chieu chung chiewo chiege chiege chung chwako chai chai chiek chieng chiro
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Translation: Porcupine wakes up, wakes up the wife and the wife makes tea which becomes ready on market day.
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