- 1831 — Nat Turner leads enslaved and free Black people in rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, claiming the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.
- 1961 — Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan first president, is freed from prison after serving nine years.
- 1968 — James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
- 1986 — Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20 km range.
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Tupe tupate, tumtupie Tapu.
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Translation: Give (it) to us so we can have (it) in order to pass (it) on to Tapu.
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