As it has since time immemorial in Egypt, seasonal flooding of the Nile River Delta begins. The season will end in September when waters recede, having deposited fertile silt for agriculture.

The cornerstone for Drill Hall in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) is laid by Cecil Rhodes. When completed (pic), it will be the colony’s most impressive building.

The first recorded football match in Nigeria is played, in Calabar, British Nigeria. Football has been introduced to the country by Britain, and will become the national sport.

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Trinidad-born aviator, showman and self-promoter Hubert Julian, who became the first black parachutist when he jumped out of a plane over New York in 1923 while performing the song Running Wild on a gold-plated saxophone, arrives in Addis-Ababa. He announces that Emperor Haile Selassie has made him head of the Ethiopian Air Force. However, after he crashes Selassie’s favorite plane – one of only three planes the air force owns – he will be asked to leave the country.

South Africa’s Minister of Lands Jan Kemp, an anti-conservationist and upholder of white minority rule, is asked to set aside land as a refuge for endangered Cape Mountain Zebra. He replies, “Hell, no! They’re donkeys in football jerseys!” (Working around Kemp, conservationists are able to establish Mountain Zebra National Park in 1938.)

Zerai Deres, an Eritrean working in Rome as a translator, is mocked by a crowd of Italians when he kneels and prays before the Lion of Judah statue that was looted from Addis Ababa in 1935 and mounted as a war trophy at Italy's capital. When fascist soldiers tell him to stop, he pulls out a scimitar, shouts protests against Italy’s occupation of his home country, and wounds two soldiers. He is shot dead, but becomes a national hero in Eritrea.

Release of the movie The Endless Summer, a documentary about surfing. Sections are devoted to surfing thrills in Ghana on Africa’s Atlantic coast and at Durban, South Africa on the Indian Ocean coast, where surfing was introduced 20 years ago, during the 1940s. Last year, South Africa's governing body for the sport of surfing was formed, Surfing South Africa.

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It’s Father’s Day, and Burkina-Faso’s President and revolutionary hero Thomas Sankara is out of uniform and fooling around with his sons Phillipe and Auguste. His time with his family will prove limited prior to the Pan-Africanist icon's assassination next year.

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The release of the movie The Lion King. The Disney Studio musical will be the top-grossing film of 1994, and the highest-grossing animated film of all time. It is the first Disney movie to be dubbed in isiZulu. Preparing the film, animators researched the story’s many African animal types at Kenya’s Hell’s Gate National Park.

The first submarine of the post-apartheid South African navy is launched. The diesel-electric SAS Manthatisi is named after the 19th century warrior queen of the Batlokwa people, and is the first of the German-built submarines to replace French-built submarines that were decommissioned in 2003.

Puntland creates a draft constitution that for the first time allows for multi-party democracy in the autonomous region of Somalia.