Historical Events:

• 1945: Graca Machel, widow of Samora Machel and third wife of former president Nelson Mandela, is born in Gaza, Mozambique. Her year of birth is also given as 1946.
• 1980: Prime Minister P.W. Botha concludes a five-day state visit to Taiwan, during which he and his twenty-member delegation meet Taiwan's Premier and other officials and discuss substantial cooperation in economic and technical projects.
• 1990: Three Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) members from Richards Bay are arrested in connection with an attack the previous week on a bus near Durban in which seven people were killed and 26 injured.
• 2006: The United States population reaches 300 million.

Arts, Music, TV:

• 1967: Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS.
• 1987: "Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances.
• 1990: Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong drops out of school to pursue a career in music.
• 2005: Tryna du Toit (95), Afrikaans novelist, dies in Pretoria.
• 2005: Petra Muller, South African poet, receives the Hertzog Prize for Afrikaans literature.

Sports:

• 1969: Theodore Ernest (Ernie) Els, SA champion golfer, is born in Kempton Park, East Rand.
• 1971: Judy Rankin wins LPGA Quality-First Golf Classic.
• 1988: Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title.
• 1991: Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races.

















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