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The first regular jet flight (with a Havilland Comet) leaves London with thirty-six passengers to arrive eighteen hours later
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Nama chief Josef Fredericks cedes a strip of the Namaqualand coast to Heinrich Vogelsang for the establishment of a German comm
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The cargo ship Ashdod is the first Israeli ship to pass through the Suez Canal for over 50 years.
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The cargo ship Ashdod is the first Israeli ship to pass through the Suez Canal for over 50 years.
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The cargo ship Ashdod is the first Israeli ship to pass through the Suez Canal for over 50 years.
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IBM shareholders in Washington vote against a resolution calling on the company to sever all commercial ties with South Africa.
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Louis-Herbert Lyautey is appointed as the first Resident-General of Morocco, with a particular instruction to suppress anti-Fre
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A punitive expedition is undertaken by the British against Muhammed Abdalah Hassan (known to the British as the ‘Mad Mullah’) i
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Parties table more than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The National Party (NP) fight for the insertion of a
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The Japanese Government donates US$4 million to the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA), through the Trust
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Parties table more than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The National Party (NP) fight for the insertion of a
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The Japanese Government donates US$4 million to the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA), through the Trust
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Israel turns over the final third of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt under the Camp David peace agreement.
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Israel turns over the final third of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt under the Camp David peace agreement.
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It is confirmed in London that thirteen African countries have threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh,
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Atlas Corporation completes deliveries to the South African Air Force (SAAF) of a first series of Impala MK-2 jet fighters.
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President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is the first French president to visit Algeria since independence was achieved in 196
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Fifty Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members arrested by Swaziland government orders are to be expelled from Swaziland. They are
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An evacuation of foreigners from Liberia is undertaken with US helicopters after thousands flock to the US diplomatic compound
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After a UN Security Council vote to continue sanctions against Libya, Britain is accused of "a hidden hatred and an histor
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ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela discloses a plan to unite a wide range of anti-apartheid forces. The proposal seeks unity o
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Unlawful Organisations Act No 34 commences, providing for organisations threatening public order or the safety of the public to
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The United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) is established to research and prevent disease and improve public health wor
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The Hoexter Commission presents its fifth and final report to Parliament, recommending major reforms in the judicial system and
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Eugene Terre ‘Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging is condemned to death seven times because he and two follower
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A US State Department report says Israel, France and Italy have continued to maintain and upgrade a major weapons systems for S
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The National Coordinating Committee for the Repatriation of South African Exiles (NCCR) is dissolved due to fraud and corruptio
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SA recalls its ambassador to Britain for urgent consultations, after four South Africans and a Briton are charged in Coventry w
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Pik Botha, SA ambassador in the USA, returns to South Africa and is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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