• 1899: Battle of Ladysmith, Natal: Boers beat lt-general White's army.
• 1944: Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen.
• 1953: Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1960: Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney.
• 1968: Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics).
• 1998: In response to a call by President Nelson Mandela, representatives of government, business, labour and other community and development organisations meet at the Presidential Job Summit to discuss ways to create jobs.

• 1906: Archibald Campbell Mzoliza 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, is born at Mbokothwana Mission, Tsolo district, Transkei.
• 1925: KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions.
• 1976: Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show.
• 2012: Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billion
• 1974: Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight title.
• 1956: Nick Mallet, former SA Springbok coach, is born.
• 1999: The Australian rugby team beats SA 27-21 in the World Cup semi-final in Twickenham.
• 1974: California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH).