Historical Events:

• 1940: Dutch Prime Minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks.
• 2012: Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq.
• 1991: The ANC, in an emergency meeting, calls for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister Magnus Malan, and says state sponsorship of Inkatha poses a grave threat to the peace process.
• 1935: Lester Walton is appointed minister to Liberia.

Arts, Music, TV:

• 1862: Dorothea (Anne) Fairbridge, author of books on SA history, including on Lady Anne Barnard, is born in Cape Town.
• 1994: OJ Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder.
• 1946: Bless Bridges, SA singer, is born.
• 1963: Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles".
• 1936: Nico van Rensburg, SA concertina player, is born.

Sports:

• 1927: George Hunter, light heavyweight boxer (Olympic gold 1948), is born in South Africa.
• 1956: Gordon Igesund, SA soccer coach who was awarded Kick Off's accolade for the Coach of the Decade, is born in Durban.
• 1975: Raphael Ndukwe Chukwu, foreign football player who plays for SA and who was winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 97/98, is born in Aba, Nigeria.
• 1999: Wouter Hugo (46), former Free State rugby captain, dies in a motorcar accident.












Source: historyorb.com & sahistory.org.com
Compiled by: Thandi Xaba