Leg irons once used on enslaved people on display at the Kura Hulanda Museum on the Caribbean island of Curaçao.

Mansa Musa, King of Mali, on a map of North Africa circa 1375. (Credit: Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Key Steps That Led to End of Apartheid; South African men cheer and celebrate the news of Nelson Mandela's release from prison, 1990

Emperor Negus Menelik II of Ethiopia at Battle of Adwa 1896 Ethiopia (Photo by Chris Hellier/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Nubian Queen Who Fought Back Caesars Army

South Africa captain Francois Pienaar receives the William Webb Ellis Trophy from President Nelson Mandela after the home team defeated arch rival New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby Union World Cup in Johannesburg.

Senegalese soldiers after attack, circa 1914-circa 1918. The Senegalese Tirailleurs were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army. They were recruited from Senegal and other sub-Saharan regions of the French empire.

<p>Africa is a large and diverse continent that extends from South Africa northward to the Mediterranean Sea. The continent makes up one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth. Widely recognized as the birthplace of humankind, Africa saw the rise of great kingdoms, faced the trans-Atlantic slave trade, colonization and Apartheid.</p>


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JFK becomes first president to hold live television news conference

1961

Sports

First Winter Olympics

1924

Asian History

Chairman Mao’s widow sentenced to death

1981

Cold War

Russia activates its nuclear command systems for the first time

1995

Crime

Charles Manson and his followers convicted of murder

1971

Italian auto baron Gianni Agnelli dies

2003

World War II

Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom

1942

World War I

Montenegro capitulates to Austro-Hungarian forces

1916

Nixon reveals information about secret negotiations

1972

First plenary session of the formal Paris Peace talks is held

1969

First Winter Olympics begin in Chamonix, France

Pat Garrett leaves Louisiana

1869

Arts &amp; Entertainment

Paul McCartney is released from a Tokyo jail and deported from Japan

1980

Scottish poet Robert Burns is born

1759

First Emmy Awards ceremony

1949

1960s

Food

Julia Child’s “The French Chef” debuts

1963

First US cycling club formed

1878

21st Century

World Health Organization officially names novel coronavirus disease COVID-19

2020

Pop superstar Whitney Houston dies at age 48

2012

Space Exploration

Japan launches its first satellite

1970

Religion

St. Bernadette claims to see the Virgin Mary

1858

African History

Nelson Mandela released from prison

1990

Yalta Conference ends

1945

The “Channel Dash”

Russia’s General Kaledin dies by suicide

1918

Farm Gate aircraft crashes

1962

Underdog Buster Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson

FDR and daughter Anna leave Yalta Conference

Native American History

Sacagawea gives birth to her first child

1805

Voltaire returns to Paris from exile

1778

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