- 1964 — Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
- 1999 — Julius Nyerere, the first President of Tanzania, dies.
- 1930 — Mobutu Sese Seko, former President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is born.
- 2017 — An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonates a truck bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 587 people.
Nyerere Day
October 14
Public holiday
Nyerere Day
Established after Nyerere's death in 1999, it celebrates his efforts in leading Tanzania to independence in 1961.
Sina.
Big and small
e.g.
Igi kâddi ye hâgudu ili sibina(sobona) ye.
en
This is big, and that is little.
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Juzi mjuzi akala mchuzi wa mjusi.
Swahili (Tanzania)
Translation: The day before yesterday the wise man ate some lizard soup.
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Bulenje
Bullet
e.g.
Alipiga bambaa/itoka/rithe/kidii/bulenje kwa ile mrenga
en
He/she shot a bullet at the vehicle
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