World News
Today in History: October 20th─── 08:00 Mon, 20 Oct 2014
Historical Events:
• 1975: Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning.
• 1987: The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) crashes.
• 1999: Former diplomat and Director of Foreign Affairs Jackie Selebi is set to lead SAPS.
Arts, Music, TV:
• 1930: Louis Cornelius Eksteen, SA linguist and poet, is born in Windhoek, SWA.
• 1968: Archibald Campbell Mzoliza (AC) Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist and the first African to be appointed as lecturer in the School of African Studies at the University of Cape Town and to receive a Ph.D. at that university, dies in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• 1999: Piet Cillié (82), former editor of Die Burger, dies in Cape Town.
Sports:
• 1973: President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century.
• 1963: Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds
• 2004: Boston Red Sox come back from 0-3 to defeat the New York Yankees 4-3 to win baseball's American League.
Source: historyorb.com & sahistory.org.com
Compiled by: Thandi Xaba