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Milton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator who was first toppled by Idi Amin and overthrown again after a second stint in powe
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At least 4,500 people die when two earthquakes strike North West Algeria. In El-Asnam (formerly Orleansville) and its surroundi
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City Press reports that one suspected guerrilla was killed in a shootout with Ciskei police in October and two women are subseq
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SWAPO claims it was not responsible for placing landmines in the Caprivi Strip and that the guerrillas were not operating from
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British mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned after having failed with much loss of life on both sides. He was ultimately d
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The Berlin Airlift, which delivers 2m tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, and in whi
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Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne (Gascoigne) Bulwer (77), governor of Natal after whom the town Bulwer was named, dies in Norfolk, Eng
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Sir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate and politician, marries Mary Westenra, pilot who was later awarded a DBE (Dame of the British
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South Africa was told by IAEA to open all nuclear plants to international inspection or face sanctions by the International Ato
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Reports that 89% of soldiers at a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) project had tested positive for HIV/Aids was &qu
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Reports that 89% of soldiers at a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) project had tested positive for HIV/Aids was &qu
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Ruth Perry is chosen by a meeting of West African heads of state to chair Liberia’s ruling council, thus becoming Africa’s firs
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag
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Former president F.W. de Klerk announces his decision to leave the New National Party because, joining the ANC as was decided b
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The chauffeur of Chief Mhlabunzima, who was a witness at the inquest into the Chief’s death, is killed in the Natal Midlands.
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag
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The highest temperature ever recorded in the world was 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius) on this day at El Azizia,
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Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, politician and Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, is born in Aliwal North district, CC.
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William Ewart Gladstone (W.E.G.) Louw, SA poet and literator and younger brother of N.P. van Wyk Louw, is born in Sutherland.
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President Nelson Mandela says that in order to promote national unity he was willing to bring into government those who remain
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The Star reports that Gordon Webster, an alleged ANC insurgent, was found guilty of the murder of a policeman and the attempted
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The entire family of Morgan Montoedi, five members, are killed in a petrol bomb attack on their home in Kagiso, West Rand.
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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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A bomb blast damages Melrose House in Pretoria, where the peace treaty between the two Boer Republics and Britain was signed in
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WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack
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Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West
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A powerful bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Meadowlands, Soweto, at 7:00 pm. No one is injured.
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Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, dies in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organise
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