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The General Assembly adopts resolution 2775 D (XXVI) calling for a boycott of sports teams selected in violation of the Olympic
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President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Côte d’Ivoire, is re-elected for a third term.
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The International Convention on Civil liability for Oil Pollution Damage, as well as the International Convention Relating to I
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Military coup takes place in Dahomey (now Benin) led by Colonel Christophe Soglo.
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The Automobile Association of SA (AA) takes over the Royal Automobile Club (RAC), founded in 1901.
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Several hundred thousand people demonstrate in Beijing against United States involvement in the Congo, calling it aggression.
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President Swart appoints a one-man commission, Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, to inquire into the riots in Paarl, CP.
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Eleven more people are sentenced to death for their part in Nigerian political riots in March, bringing the number up to forty-
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Tripartite Invasion of the Suez Canal Zone is officially ended under pressure from the UN.
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Mduduzi (Dudu) Kunene, anaesthetist, chair of Siltek Ltd and deputy chair of Kunene Bros Holdings, is born in Boksburg.
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Johann Christiaan Kriegler, Judge of the Constitutional Court and former chairman of the Electoral Commission is born in Pretor
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The Transvaal University College becomes the Pretoria University.
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Archaeologists announce they have found fabulous treasures in the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Kitchener succeeds Lord Roberts as commander-in-chief of the British forces in SA and Lord Roberts succe
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Renosterkop takes place between forces under Major-General Paget and Gen. B. Viljoen.
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François Petrus (Toon) van den Heever, SA poet and justice-president, is born in the district of Heidelberg, Tvl.
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The Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church is opened in Burgersdorp, CC.
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The British land a major force on l’Ile de France and capture the island from the French. They revert to the name Mauritius.
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The pulpit of the Groote Kerk, made by Anton Anreith, is inaugurated in Cape Town.
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Otto Krause (69), political analyst and journalist, dies of lung cancer in the Milpark Clinic in Johannesburg.
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SA cricket players record their first ever innings win over England when they beat Nassar Hussain’s tourists by an innings and
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At least forty-six people are injured when a pipe bomb explodes in the packed St Elmo restaurant in Camps Bay, Cape Town.
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Congo reaches a cease-fire agreement in Paris with Uganda and Rwanda, which support rebels in Congo, but the rebel groups thems
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The SA rugby team beats Ireland 27-13 in Dublin.
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Fighting breaks out among President Laurent Kabila’s soldiers in Kinshasa, Congo, when he orders the arrest of one of his aides
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SA signs memorandum of understanding on South African – Swedish development cooperation.
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Ford and Mercedes re-invest in South Africa.
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The Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) adopts a new constitution, which will allow women and all race groups as members, as long as the
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Four White South Africans are killed and seventeen injured when armed APLA guerrillas storm into a golf club in King William’
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