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The eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia on 27 August 1883, where the explosion was heard as far as Rodrigues Island, 500 kilometres east of Mauritius.

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Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, is located on the island of Santiago. With around 188,728 inhabitants in 2023, it is the political, economic and cultural center of the country.

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Nouakchott has been the capital of Mauritania since 1957. Located on the Atlantic coast, it is the country's political, economic and cultural center.

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Lusaka is the capital and largest city in Zambia. It serves as a center of commerce as well as the seat of the Zambian government.

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Electric Music for the Mind and Body is Country Joe and the Fish's first album and one of the first psychedelic albums to come out of San Francisco in 1967.

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The bat's scientific name is Chiroptera. These flying mammals play an essential role in ecosystems, notably as pollinators and insect population controllers.

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Andre Agassi faced Ukraine's Andrei Medvedev in the final of the 1999 French Open, winning his first and only title in Paris.

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Director Stanley Kubrick cast Kirk Douglas in Spartacus, released in 1960. This epic film recounts the slave revolt led by Spartacus against Rome.

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The first successful kidney transplant was performed in 1954 by American surgeon Joseph Murray, who later received the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 include two official racial texts, but a third, on the flag, was promulgated on the same day as a symbolic gesture.

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