June 16, 1976
South African police opened fire on black students peacefully protesting the requirement to learn Afrikaans, the language of the small white majority that enforced the racially separatist regime known as apartheid. Neither black nor colored (other non-white or mixed race) South Africans could vote or live where they chose. More than 150 South African children were killed and hundreds more were injured in the shooting, which came known as the Soweto Massacre.
