21 March 1960
69 People Killed in Sharpeville
Commemoration of Sharpeville killings
poster, 1960
BG D11/299
In Sharpeville, South Africa, police fire on a crowd of black demonstrators, killing 69. The United Nations made 21 March International Day against Racism (1966).
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Today in the Biographies Dutch Labour Movement
Born on 21 March
• Ina Elisa Willekes MacDonald |