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The Live Aid concert for African famine relief takes place simultaneously in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London, England and
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The last all-White Parliament ends its last session in Cape Town.
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The Transvaal Attorney General announces that AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche and three associates will face terrorism charges,
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Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana (1966–80), dies in Gaborone, Botswana due to pancreatic cancer.
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The SA rugby team loses against the British Lions 9-26 in Port Elizabeth.
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Firing squads in Morocco execute ten army officers accused of trying to overthrow King Hassan.
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The SA rugby team beats the British Lions 11-6 on Newlands, Cape Town.
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The SA rugby team beats Australia 14-3 in the first test in Pretoria.
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The Security police disclose the existence of an underground group the Yu Chi Chan, said to include people trained in Peking an
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The government of India announces that it is cutting India’s last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing and pas
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Fietas, Johannesburg: A memorandum relating to the housing conditions and need for housing schemes of poorer Indians is present
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Nigeria’s 1986 Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, novelist, playwright and poet, is born in Abeokuta, south-western Nigeria.
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Johannes Jacobus Fagan, SA composer, commits suicide in London because of worsening health problems and the death of his young
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Ernest Sedumedi Moloto, linguist, educationist and teacher who served as chairman of both the Tswana Language Committee of SA a
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Garfield Todd, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) from 1953 to 1958, is born at Invercargill, New Zealand.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: J.P. Coetzee, Cape rebel, is executed by the British and all male adults are ordered to attend.
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Anglo-Boer War 2 -At a council of war, Chief Commandant De Wet explains the shortcomings of the Republican concentration in the
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A crosswind destroys the barracks of the Salvation Army in Church Street, Pretoria West. One person is injured.
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Abbas I, viceroy of Egypt under the Ottomans who opposed Western-inspired reforms, is strangled by two of his servants, and suc
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Queen Victoria is the first monarch to move into Buckingham Palace, London.
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Judge Moroa Tsoka grants a temporary court order to Chief Superintendent Stanley Sagathevan and his suspended colleagues, Chief
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Bill Flynn (58), popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg, presumably of a heart attack. His highly successful career includes lea
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Ashwell Prince is appointed as South Africa’s first Black cricket captain.
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BBC News reports hundreds of demonstrators have protested at a game ranch in South Africa over the ill-treatment of fourteen ba
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SA signs agreement with the Commonwealth Development Corporation.
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The home match between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Cameroon ends in a tie, with 2 goals each.
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Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee grants the “Sharpeville Six” an indefinite stay of execution. Date is given as 14 July in anot
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The Johannesburg chief magistrate refuses permission for a concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday. The date is g
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The Nigerian military government postpones restoration of civilian rule from October 1990 to 1992.
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