1900, 4 September
Danie Theron, a true Afrikaner patriot believing in the just and divine right of the Boer to stand against British interference, died during the Second Anglo-Boer War in an inferno of lyddite and shrapnel. Find out why.
1916, 4 September - World War I: East Africa
British forces occupy Dar-es-Salaam.
1942, 4 September - World War II: North Africa
The 2nd New Zealand Division at Alam Nayil Ridge makes a brief counter-attack against Rommel's forces, hoping to close up gaps in the front where the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) had pushed through minefields.
1960, 4 September
Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the recently created Republic of the Congo (now Democratic Rebuplic of the Congo), is dismissed by the President, Joseph Kasavubu.
