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Mozambique former President Samora Machel was assassinated by the South African Apartheid regime. His plane was brought down on this day in 1986.

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Sister President Johnetta Betsch Cole was born on this day in 1936. She was a professor of Anthropology for decades, became the President of two major HBCUs, Spellman College and

Bennet College, and eventually Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of African Art. She is now President of the National Council of Negro Women