Shortly thereafter, on Nov. 2, 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia. While Selassie never considered himself divine, many people did, leading to Rastafarianism.

Born in Ethiopia in 1892 as Täfäri Mäkonnän (“Ras” is a noble title he took later), Selassie traced his lineage back to the first emperor of Ethiopia, Menelik I, who is said to be a ...

Haile-Selassie’s discovery of a 3.8 million-year-old complete hominin cranium is what drew Nature’s attention. The journal first announced it online in August, and then in print in September.

On Sept. 12, 1974, military officers deposed Emperor Haile Selassie from the Ethiopian throne he had occupied for more than half a century.