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Yacoob Mahomed Makda, politician, executive member of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, and member of several boar

This day in history

WW2: The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to force Japan to surrender.

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The SA rugby team beats the British 26-12 in the first test of the series. S.C. Louw scores SA’s 100th try.

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Joseph Michael Solomon, architect partner of Herbert Baker, commits suicide in Cape Town. He was never to see the final com

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Prof. Christoffel Johannes Michael Nienaber, Afrikaans linguist, is born in Fauresmith, OFS.

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Adm. Hugo (Hendrik) Bierman, head and first admiral of the SA Fleet, is born in Johannesburg.

This day in history

The SA rugby team beats the British Isles 14-10 in the first test in Johannesburg.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Remnants of the notorious Steinaecker’s Horse, led by Capt. Francis and fighting on British side, are surroun

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Elands River: British Gen. Carrington retreats to the Marico River and Zeerust, Western Transvaal

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Madagascar becomes a possession of the French Republic.

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The first electric tram service in Cape Town is officially inaugurated by Lady Sivewright, when she starts the first tram on it

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Sir William Westbrooke Burton, judge of the Cape Supreme Court, dies.

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Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk, elected as ‘Chairman’ of the territory south and north of the Harts River, issues a proclamation

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Anna Louisa (Annie) Visser, SA singer who was one of the first singers to record Afrikaans songs, is born on the farm Lokshoek,

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Frederick William Fitzsimons, director of the Port Elizabeth museum for more than thirty years and pioneer of school museums in

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Sir Lionel Phillips, President of the Chamber of Mines and developer of deep level mining, is born in London.

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François le Vaillant, French naturalist and traveller in SA, is born in Paramaribo, Surinam.

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Nigerian police arrest some thirty people in Anambra state after fifty corpses and twenty skulls are discovered in raids on fet

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Locust swarms ravaging crops in parts of North Africa invade the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott stripping trees bare.

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21-year-old Luyanda Mboniswa, a security guard employed at the Dolphin Beach complex in Table View, is charged with the robbing

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The SA race horse, Horse Chestnut, is flown to New York by special cargo aeroplane to run in the Dubai World Cup with R30 mil

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US President Bill Clinton signs a bill to punish foreign businesses that invest in Iran and Libya.

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Ten residents are killed in Qumbu in revenge for a previous attack on the village of Ntshongweni.

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A coelacanth, thought extinct before rediscovered in 1938, is caught off the south-west coast of Madagascar.

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Nelson Mandela leads 100 000 Blacks in Pretoria in a protest to end White rule.

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The United States sends a Marine company into Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, to evacuate US citizens because of a rebel threat to

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Thirty ANC supporters are killed (5-23 August) in attacks aimed at the takeover of Kagiso hostel.

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Police fire teargas at a 300-strong crowd which had gathered outside the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to convey their wi

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Daniel Tshabalala disappears in Soweto after allegedly taken from his house by four men, two Black men in police uniforms and t

This day in history

Dr Zach de Beer succeeds Colin Eglin as leader of the PFP.

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Yacoob Mahomed Makda, politician, executive member of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, and member of several boar

WW2: The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to force Japan to surrender.

The SA rugby team beats the British 26-12 in the first test of the series. S.C. Louw scores SA’s 100th try.

Joseph Michael Solomon, architect partner of Herbert Baker, commits suicide in Cape Town. He was never to see the final com

Prof. Christoffel Johannes Michael Nienaber, Afrikaans linguist, is born in Fauresmith, OFS.

Adm. Hugo (Hendrik) Bierman, head and first admiral of the SA Fleet, is born in Johannesburg.

The SA rugby team beats the British Isles 14-10 in the first test in Johannesburg.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Remnants of the notorious Steinaecker’s Horse, led by Capt. Francis and fighting on British side, are surroun

Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Elands River: British Gen. Carrington retreats to the Marico River and Zeerust, Western Transvaal

Madagascar becomes a possession of the French Republic.

The first electric tram service in Cape Town is officially inaugurated by Lady Sivewright, when she starts the first tram on it

Sir William Westbrooke Burton, judge of the Cape Supreme Court, dies.

Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk, elected as ‘Chairman’ of the territory south and north of the Harts River, issues a proclamation

Anna Louisa (Annie) Visser, SA singer who was one of the first singers to record Afrikaans songs, is born on the farm Lokshoek,

Frederick William Fitzsimons, director of the Port Elizabeth museum for more than thirty years and pioneer of school museums in

Sir Lionel Phillips, President of the Chamber of Mines and developer of deep level mining, is born in London.

François le Vaillant, French naturalist and traveller in SA, is born in Paramaribo, Surinam.

Nigerian police arrest some thirty people in Anambra state after fifty corpses and twenty skulls are discovered in raids on fet

Locust swarms ravaging crops in parts of North Africa invade the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott stripping trees bare.

21-year-old Luyanda Mboniswa, a security guard employed at the Dolphin Beach complex in Table View, is charged with the robbing

The SA race horse, Horse Chestnut, is flown to New York by special cargo aeroplane to run in the Dubai World Cup with R30 mil

US President Bill Clinton signs a bill to punish foreign businesses that invest in Iran and Libya.

Ten residents are killed in Qumbu in revenge for a previous attack on the village of Ntshongweni.

A coelacanth, thought extinct before rediscovered in 1938, is caught off the south-west coast of Madagascar.

Nelson Mandela leads 100 000 Blacks in Pretoria in a protest to end White rule.

The United States sends a Marine company into Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, to evacuate US citizens because of a rebel threat to

Thirty ANC supporters are killed (5-23 August) in attacks aimed at the takeover of Kagiso hostel.

Police fire teargas at a 300-strong crowd which had gathered outside the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to convey their wi

Daniel Tshabalala disappears in Soweto after allegedly taken from his house by four men, two Black men in police uniforms and t

Dr Zach de Beer succeeds Colin Eglin as leader of the PFP.