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On this day in 2010, Haiti suffered the worst disaster in its history when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit. Haiti was born in a glorious revolution, but has had, for about a century now, a deadly combination of bad internal and external political and economic mismanagement

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Sir Milton Margai was born on this day in 1895. He became the first Prime Minister of Sierra Leone at the country’s independence in 1961.