- 2023 — Gabonese military officers announce a coup d'état following Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon.
- 1983 — Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger's first night launch.
- 1967 — Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1998 — Armed forces of the DRC and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams from RCD rebels during the Second Congo War.
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August 30
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Liberation Day
Marks Gabon's independence from France on August 17, 1960.
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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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