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A thirty-day cease-fire is declared as talks between Algerian Moslem leaders and the French government begin at Evian-les-Bains
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Frew McMillan, doubles player with Bob Hewitt and Wimbledon tennis champion, is born in Springs.
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WWII: The 1st SA Infantry Brigade is called up for continuous training, to be followed by other units, including the SA Artil
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The newly founded Northern Transvaal Rugby Union plays its first Currie Cup match on the new Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria.
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A special meeting of the League of Nations is called for by Abyssinia, requesting aid in defence against Italian aggression.
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Die Huisgenoot, oldest still existing Afrikaans magazine, appears ten months after Die Burger, and is the second publication of
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Halley’s comet reaches the closest point to the earth since 1837, only 22 million km off.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A squadron of Col. E.C. Bethune, under Capt. Geoff, runs into a well-placed ambush under Com. Blignaut at Sch
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Adolphe Mabille, Swiss missionary, Sotho philologist and Bible translator, dies at Morija, Basutoland (Lesotho) where he was st
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Florence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, is born in London, England.
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Frederick William Barber, SA border pioneer and scientist, is born in Nottingham, England.
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France again introduces slave trade in its colonies.
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The expedition under August F. Beutler, which left the Cape at the end of February, reaches Boesmans River according to his jou
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Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, on board the Saint Gabriel, and tasked with finding a sea route to India and the Orient, dr
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National Education Minister Naledi Pandor launches the redesigned and updated South African History Online website.
National Education Minister Naledi Pandor launches the redesigned and updated South African History Online website.
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A protest meeting and march against the proposed name change of the city of Pretoria to Tshwane is held on Church Square, Preto
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An earthquake measuring 6.8 strikes Algeria’s northern coast, 70 km east of Algiers. At least 2 200 people are killed in the in
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The UN Security Council declares the Congo River open again after two years and six months of war. The closure has affected foo
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Two white death sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are noticed at Plettenberg Bay, Cape south coast, and bathing is prohibited.
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In East Africa’s worst marine disaster, a Tanzanian ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria near the western town of Mwanza. Of the est
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Bakili Muluzi is sworn in as Malawi’s first democratically elected president.
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South Africa establishes full diplomatic relations with Lesotho and the Ivory Coast.
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Ethiopia’s military strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam steps down and flies to exile in Zimbabwe after fourteen years of brutal ru
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Ethiopia’s military strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam steps down and flies to exile in Zimbabwe after fourteen years of brutal ru
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Dr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are already infected with th
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The Government and the ANC receive the report on procedures for releasing political prisoners, which were drafted by the joint
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The Government and the ANC receive the report on procedures for releasing political prisoners, which were drafted by the joint
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The Government’s Custom and Excise office announces that South Africa’s trade surplus widened to R969 million in April from R87
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Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home
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