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Today in History: March 5th

───   08:00 Thu, 05 Mar 2015

Today in History: March 5th | News Article
Historical Events:

• 1924: The first one-day flight between Cape Town and Pretoria takes place.
• 1953: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin dies. Some 2 000 people are crushed to death in the crowd during the funeral.
• 1931: Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact.
• 1974: Ethiopia's leader Haile Selassie, confronted by continued unrest, agrees to a constitutional convention to create a new system of elected democratic government.
• 1990: 6 000 teachers from Soweto and Alexandra begin a strike because their grievances are not being addressed. The strike spread to the east Rand, the Highveld, the Northern Cape, Pretoria and the Vaal Triangle, involving 11 600 teachers and continued for a month.
• 1995: IFP decides to end its parliamentary boycott of mid-February.

Arts, Music, TV:

• 1935: Durant Sihlali, SA artist, is born in Germiston. He exhibited in South Africa and Western Europe.
• 1956: "King Kong," 1st televised.
• 1969: Reuben Tholakele (Thola) Caluza, Zulu composer and choir master who popularised Zulu folk music, dies in Durban.
• 1963: Beatles record "From Me to You" & "Thank You Girl".
• 1971: "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin is first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones.
• 1977: 3rd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)
• 2005: Director Zola Maseko becomes the first South African to win the top prize at Africa's premier film festival for "Drum", a film about apartheid set amid the jazz clubs of 1950s Johannesburg. Maseko is awarded the Etalon d'Or de Yennenga, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, and a cash prize of 10 million CFA francs ($20,000) at the closing ceremony of the Fespaco film festival in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou.

Sports:

• 1969: Derek Crookes, SA cricket player, is born.
• 1994: Cricket might become a national sport. The ANC recognises sport as the single biggest "healer" in a country torn apart by race and cultural differences...Tshwete spoke of his admiration for cricket's role in healing old wounds and gave his assurance that an ANC government would have sport high on its list of priorities.
• 1995: Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26).
• 1956: Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open.
• 1994: PBA National Championship won by David Traber.
• 2009: Moises Alou announces he will retire following the World Baseball Classic.













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

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