** Diet Ginger Ale

** Palm Royale ( formerly Royal Van Roy Ale ) ( 7, 5 % ABV ) brewed on the occasion of Alfred Van Roy's 90th birthday ;

** Africa: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

** Africa: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya

** Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.

** Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia ( d. 1622 )

** While Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard leads a military coup against his rule, proclaiming that the emperor's son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, is the new emperor.

** Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace ( the former Imperial residence ) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.

** Mengistu Haile Mariam, former President of Ethiopia

** The Guinean delegation to the OAU meeting in Ethiopia, become hostages of the Ghanaian government in Accra.

** Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.

** Seeking to extend Mahdist control over what is now southwestern Ethiopia, governor Khalil al-Khuzani is routed at the Battle of Guté Dili by an alliance of Shewan forces under Ras Gobana Dacche and Moroda Bekere, ruler of Leqa Naqamte.

** In Ethiopia, the Eritrean Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.

** Ethiopia recognizes the People's Republic of China.

** Ethiopia admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of Cuban soldiers against Somalian troops in the Ogaden.

** Live Aid pop concerts in London and Philadelphia raise over £ 50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.

** U. S. Congressman Mickey Leland ( D-TX ) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.

** Za Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia

** Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia ( d. 1597 )

** Dawit I of Ethiopia ( d. 1413 )

** Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia ( d. 1494 )

** Yohannes I becomes king of Ethiopia following the death of his father Negus Fasilides.

** Dawit II of Ethiopia ( d. 1540 )

** Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia ( b. 1399 )

** Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia ( d. 1468 )

Erta Ale is a continuously active basaltic shield volcano in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia.

Between September and October 2005, 163 earthquakes of magnitudes greater than 3. 9 and a volcanic eruption occurred within the Afar rift at the Dabbahu and Erta Ale volcanoes.

One of Earth's five lava lakes, Erta Ale is found here, as well as Dabbahu Volcano.

* Photos of Erta Ale, Hotsprings at Dallol and Danakil

* Huge collection of ( 3000 ) photos from different expeditions in the Dallol, Erta Ale and Danakil regions

Erta Ale shield volcano in the Danakil Desert

Many volcanoes exist in the region, including Erta Ale and the Dabbahu Volcano.

The volcano Erta Ale rises southwest of this lake.

In January 2005, George brought his camera to the remote Danakil Depression in the harsh Ethiopian desert and was lowered 60 feet into the smoking crater of the active Erta Ale volcano.