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Timbuktu's Golden Age: The Songhai Empire

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African Kingdoms

Timbuktu's Golden Age: The Songhai Empire

A Beacon of Learning in West Africa

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World

2021
Riots in four Ecuadorian prisons, caused by gang rivalries, resulted in the deaths of 79 inmates.
2017
Syrian civil war: Allied troops led by the Turkish Armed Forces captured the city of al-Bab from the Islamic State.
2008
A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed on the runway shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in the most expensive crash in U.S. Air Force history.
1987
SN 1987A, the first supernova that modern astronomers were able to study in great detail, was observed from Earth occurring in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1971
Vietnam War: South Vietnamese General Đỗ Cao Trí was killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering Operation Lam Son 719.
1945
Second World War: An Allied bombing run on Pforzheim, Germany, killed approximately 31 percent of its population and destroyed about 83 percent of its buildings.

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