1830 – French occupation to Algeria begins.
1888 – Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
1976 – South African police opens fire on a peaceful march organized by black students on anti-apartheid policy killing 566 children, popularly known as the ‘Soweto uprising’.
2002 – Authorities of the Israeli occupation begin to set up the apartheid wall in the West Bank.
Born today:
1928 – Ernesto Che Guevara
Passed away:
1878 – American surgeon, Crawford Long, the first to use ether in Anesthesia.
R. Milhem/ Barry
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