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An Israeli fighter pilot shoots down a Libyan aircraft over the Sinai Desert. Seventy-four passengers and crewmembers die.

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WW2: The 12th African Division, with 1st SA Infantry Brigade in command, captures Kismayu in Somaliland.

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The Rev. D. Wilcocks, lecturer at the Wellington Missionary Institute and clergyman in various places in SA, is born.

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An edict is issued in the Cape Colony forbidding any White person from settling beyond the Gamtoos River.

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SA signs agreement with Namibia regarding standards of livestock breeding and the importation of breeding animals, semen, ova o

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In a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) revelation, General Georg Meiring is implicated with more than sixty officers an

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The four former ministers sentenced to death for treason, murder, and an attempted coup by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s

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SA signs treaty with Southern Rhodesia on the continuation of the workman’s compensation agreement of 11 October 1958.

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SA signs agreement with Great Britain for the temporary suspension of the margin of preference on tin plate.

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The ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front and its allies score an overwhelming victory in elections for a ne

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SA signs treaty with Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe relative to the establishment of the Limpopo Basin Permanent Technical C

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The SABC launches Africa’s first news channel, aimed at providing an African perspective on domestic and international stories.

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Hundreds of foreigners, including three SA businessmen, flee from Eritrea after a frontier dispute with Ethiopia leads to bombi

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SA signs agreement with Swaziland and Mozambique on the establishment of a tripartite permanent technical committee on water re

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John Erskine (Jack) Cheetham, SA cricket player in twenty-four test matches, is born in Mowbray, Cape Town.

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The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Afr

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Restoration of SA citizenship, announced by parliament on 15 December 1993, becomes effective. More than seven million people i

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An explosion shooks the Kenyan capital Nairobi, sending shards of glass spewing outside a downtown restaurant, killing at least

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Probable birth date of Moses Kottler, SA sculptor, in Joniskis, Lithuania. He died in March 1977, in Johannesburg.

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An action committee called the Soweto Students’ Representative Council is formed to organise the demonstration, with two repres

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Etienne Leroux (Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux), SA author of, inter alia, ‘Magersfontein, o Magersfontein!’ is born in Oudts

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Ellen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and leading executive member of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SA

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The SA Agricultural Union changes its name on the union’s annual meeting in Rustenburg to Agri South Africa.

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Stella Sigcau is elected Transkei’s third prime minister since the SA government accorded the territory independence in 1976. D

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Three British mercenaries, Andrew McKenzie, John Barker and Costas Georgiou and an American, Daniel Gearhert, are sentenced to

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survives an assassination bid unscathed when gunmen spray bullets at his armoured limousine in

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The SA rugby team loses the second test against Australia 8-12 in Brisbane, thereby also losing the series.

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The first railway line in SA, between Durban and the Point, a distance of 3,2 km, is officially opened.

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The game between Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, and Saudi Arabia ends in a tie with the score 2-2.

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The Free Mason Movement is founded in London. It was introduced into SA from the Netherlands in 1772.

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An Israeli fighter pilot shoots down a Libyan aircraft over the Sinai Desert. Seventy-four passengers and crewmembers die.

WW2: The 12th African Division, with 1st SA Infantry Brigade in command, captures Kismayu in Somaliland.

The Rev. D. Wilcocks, lecturer at the Wellington Missionary Institute and clergyman in various places in SA, is born.

An edict is issued in the Cape Colony forbidding any White person from settling beyond the Gamtoos River.

SA signs agreement with Namibia regarding standards of livestock breeding and the importation of breeding animals, semen, ova o

In a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) revelation, General Georg Meiring is implicated with more than sixty officers an

The four former ministers sentenced to death for treason, murder, and an attempted coup by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s

SA signs treaty with Southern Rhodesia on the continuation of the workman’s compensation agreement of 11 October 1958.

SA signs agreement with Great Britain for the temporary suspension of the margin of preference on tin plate.

The ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front and its allies score an overwhelming victory in elections for a ne

SA signs treaty with Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe relative to the establishment of the Limpopo Basin Permanent Technical C

The SABC launches Africa’s first news channel, aimed at providing an African perspective on domestic and international stories.

Hundreds of foreigners, including three SA businessmen, flee from Eritrea after a frontier dispute with Ethiopia leads to bombi

SA signs agreement with Swaziland and Mozambique on the establishment of a tripartite permanent technical committee on water re

John Erskine (Jack) Cheetham, SA cricket player in twenty-four test matches, is born in Mowbray, Cape Town.

The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Afr

Restoration of SA citizenship, announced by parliament on 15 December 1993, becomes effective. More than seven million people i

An explosion shooks the Kenyan capital Nairobi, sending shards of glass spewing outside a downtown restaurant, killing at least

Probable birth date of Moses Kottler, SA sculptor, in Joniskis, Lithuania. He died in March 1977, in Johannesburg.

An action committee called the Soweto Students’ Representative Council is formed to organise the demonstration, with two repres

Etienne Leroux (Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux), SA author of, inter alia, ‘Magersfontein, o Magersfontein!’ is born in Oudts

Ellen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and leading executive member of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SA

The SA Agricultural Union changes its name on the union’s annual meeting in Rustenburg to Agri South Africa.

Stella Sigcau is elected Transkei’s third prime minister since the SA government accorded the territory independence in 1976. D

Three British mercenaries, Andrew McKenzie, John Barker and Costas Georgiou and an American, Daniel Gearhert, are sentenced to

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survives an assassination bid unscathed when gunmen spray bullets at his armoured limousine in

The SA rugby team loses the second test against Australia 8-12 in Brisbane, thereby also losing the series.

The first railway line in SA, between Durban and the Point, a distance of 3,2 km, is officially opened.

The game between Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, and Saudi Arabia ends in a tie with the score 2-2.

The Free Mason Movement is founded in London. It was introduced into SA from the Netherlands in 1772.