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The first successful Caesarean is carried out in Cape Town. The lives of mother and baby are saved.

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French-Egyptian forces under beat the Turks at the Battle of Aboukir.

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Napoleon Bonaparte enters Cairo with his French troops.

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Johann Christian Ritter, probably the first printer and bookbinder in SA, is born in Germany.

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Somali truck driver Ali Ahmed Musa is taken hostage by an Iraqi militant group. He is freed unharmed at the beginning of August

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Judge Faan Hancke finds Marius Swanepoel and Hendrik Du Preez guilty of the murders on two soldiers in an apparent rightwing-in

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In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their

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Ray White is elected for a second term as president of the SA United Cricket Board (UCB).

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Benedict (Bennie) McCarthy of Bafana Bafana, accepts a contract of R38, 5 million to play for the Spanish club Celta Vigo.

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King Hassan II (70) of Morocco dies of heart failure.

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Pres. Gnassingbe Eyadema, president of the West African state Togo for 31 years, is inaugurated for another term of 5 years.

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Rwandan refugees trickle into Zaire now Congo after the border is opened, to escape filthy, crowded camps where death from chol

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Hungary and SA agree to upgrade their relations to ambassadorial level.

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The Special Committee against Apartheid issues a statement concerning the Report of the Secretary-General on the Progress made

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Strike of 10,000 Johannesburg municipal workers.

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Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat orders his troops to observe immediate cease-fire in fighting with Libya.

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Dissatisfaction with the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CPRC) climaxes with a motion of no confidence in separate dev

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Four men from the Japanese Red Army, a militant group dedicated to a worldwide communist revolution, hijack a Japan Airlines pl

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Rand Daily Mail explains that Black and White South Africans might compete against each other in an “open international” meetin

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Fietas, Johannesburg: Mr. Mahomed Suliman Bhana is released and given a remission of ten days for good behaviour.

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A powerful bomb, planted by Frederick John Harris, explodes in the Johannesburg station. One woman is killed and twenty-two (so

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Walter Sisulu is taken into custody in the Bochabella location, Bloemfontein, on a charge under the Suppression of Communism Ac

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The Nelspoort Sanatorium, started by Dr Peter Allan and first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is opened by the Prince of Wales.

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League of Nations Council approves mandates for Palestine and Egypt.

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Georg Siegfried Johannes Kuschke, industrialist and managing director of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is born i

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A combined force of the Seventh Hussars, local troops and the newly recruited British South Africa Police attacks Mashona chief

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Piet Grobler, consul of the ZAR in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, dies at the Pontdrif border post.

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South African politician and author of “Jock of the Bushveld,” Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, is born in King William’s Town.

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Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom several places and towns in SA are named, e.g. Port

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Sir Christoffel (Joseph) Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid-Afrikaan.

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The first successful Caesarean is carried out in Cape Town. The lives of mother and baby are saved.

French-Egyptian forces under beat the Turks at the Battle of Aboukir.

Napoleon Bonaparte enters Cairo with his French troops.

Johann Christian Ritter, probably the first printer and bookbinder in SA, is born in Germany.

Somali truck driver Ali Ahmed Musa is taken hostage by an Iraqi militant group. He is freed unharmed at the beginning of August

Judge Faan Hancke finds Marius Swanepoel and Hendrik Du Preez guilty of the murders on two soldiers in an apparent rightwing-in

In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their

Ray White is elected for a second term as president of the SA United Cricket Board (UCB).

Benedict (Bennie) McCarthy of Bafana Bafana, accepts a contract of R38, 5 million to play for the Spanish club Celta Vigo.

King Hassan II (70) of Morocco dies of heart failure.

Pres. Gnassingbe Eyadema, president of the West African state Togo for 31 years, is inaugurated for another term of 5 years.

Rwandan refugees trickle into Zaire now Congo after the border is opened, to escape filthy, crowded camps where death from chol

Hungary and SA agree to upgrade their relations to ambassadorial level.

The Special Committee against Apartheid issues a statement concerning the Report of the Secretary-General on the Progress made

Strike of 10,000 Johannesburg municipal workers.

Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat orders his troops to observe immediate cease-fire in fighting with Libya.

Dissatisfaction with the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CPRC) climaxes with a motion of no confidence in separate dev

Four men from the Japanese Red Army, a militant group dedicated to a worldwide communist revolution, hijack a Japan Airlines pl

Rand Daily Mail explains that Black and White South Africans might compete against each other in an “open international” meetin

Fietas, Johannesburg: Mr. Mahomed Suliman Bhana is released and given a remission of ten days for good behaviour.

A powerful bomb, planted by Frederick John Harris, explodes in the Johannesburg station. One woman is killed and twenty-two (so

Walter Sisulu is taken into custody in the Bochabella location, Bloemfontein, on a charge under the Suppression of Communism Ac

The Nelspoort Sanatorium, started by Dr Peter Allan and first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is opened by the Prince of Wales.

League of Nations Council approves mandates for Palestine and Egypt.

Georg Siegfried Johannes Kuschke, industrialist and managing director of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is born i

A combined force of the Seventh Hussars, local troops and the newly recruited British South Africa Police attacks Mashona chief

Piet Grobler, consul of the ZAR in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, dies at the Pontdrif border post.

South African politician and author of “Jock of the Bushveld,” Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, is born in King William’s Town.

Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom several places and towns in SA are named, e.g. Port

Sir Christoffel (Joseph) Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid-Afrikaan.