ON THIS DAY IN BLACK HISTORY: September 16th 1795 The British captured Cape Town, South Africa. 1848 France finally abolished slavery in its colonies. 1859 British explorer David Livingstone was the first European to set eyes on Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawis boundary with Tanzania and Mozambique. 1894 Celebrated Haitian painter Hector Hippolyte was born. 1915 Haiti became a U.S. protectorate. 1925 Blues guitarist B.B. (Blues Boy) King, considered to be one of the best blues musicians of all time, was born. 1928 A hurricane devastated the coast of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, causing one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Approximately 75% of the victims were migrant workers, mostly African-American, who drowned along the north shore. 1933 The film Emperor Jones, with Paul Robeson in his first starring role, was released. It was the first film with African-Americans playing the lead roles with all the whites in supporting roles. 1959 General Charles de Gaulle, the president of France, issued a declaration in which he recognized the right of the Algerian people to self-determination and in which, in the name of France, he promised to offer them a free choice—within four years after the cessation of hostilities in Algeria—between secession from France, integration with France and a middle course of what might be termed federation with France. 1986 At least 177 people died during a lethal fire in the Kinross mine in the Eastern Transvaal, South Africa. Most of the miners succumbed to the toxic fumes at the places where they worked. South Africas gold mines were notoriously dangerous workplaces for the countrys mainly black miners, who were usually unskilled. 1990 The first multi-party elections in nearly thirty years begin in Gabon.
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