Today is Day of the Martyrs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a public holiday. It commemorates those who died in the struggle for independence from Belgium. On January 4th 1959, riots broke out in Léopoldville after police had broken up a meeting of the independence group ABAKO. After two days of violence, 47 people, all Congolese, had been killed and 379 Africans and Europeans had been injured.
Be careful how you make that PB&J!
Today is the birthday, in 1946, of Arthur Conley.
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