Today is Youth Day in South Africa. Previously known as Soweto Day, Youth Day marks the start of the Soweto riots on this day in 1976. The riots were ignited by a government ruling that all teaching in black schools would be held in Afrikaans.
On June 16th 1976 nearly 30,000 pupils from Soweto joined a protest march. After several clashes with the police and sporadic violence over the next few weeks, approximately 700 people, many of them youths, had been killed and there was widespread destruction of property.
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Today is the birthday, in 1934, of Ruby Nash, American singer who led the rhythm and blues group Ruby & the Romantics who scored the 1963 US No.1 hit ‘Our Day Will Come’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfnEoou-FKU
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