• 1939: Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women's League of South Africa, dies in Johannesburg. Even before her death she was honoured as 'Mother of Black Freedom in South Africa.'
• 1952: Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens.
• 1964: China becomes world's 5th nuclear power.
• 1984: Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl
• 1985: The Delmas Treason Trial, up to that time the longest in SA history, starts. All the accused plead not guilty.
• 1920: Gert van den Bergh, SA actor and first free-lance radio broadcaster who was honoured by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Art) in 1965, is born in Krugersdorp.
• 1941: Hendrik Januarie, SA poet, is born.
• 1956: "Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres.
• 1983: "Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances
• 1964: South Africa fails to meet an ultimatum by the International Olympic Committee to comply with its demand to renounce racial discrimination in sport and oppose the ban on competition between White and Black athletes.
• 1975: Jacques Henry Kallis, SA cricket player, is born.
• 1987: Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title.
• 1968: During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute.