Historical Events:

• 1968: Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage.
• 1976: Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD.
• 1971: A publican is killed as he tried to remove a bomb from his pub, Northern Ireland.
• 1975: Madagascar adopts its second constitution.
• 1915: 2,800 African miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances.
• 1995: In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than fifteen years, 75 people are killed and 76 injured when a crowded train rams the back of another in the town of Badrasheen, 17 miles (28 km) south of Cairo.

Arts, Music, TV:

• 1925: Eisenstein's movie Battleship Potemkin premieres in Moscow.
• 1937: 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Snow White).
• 1937: The first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
• 1945: "Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances.
• 1945: Sydney Carter, SA painter known for his landscape paintings, dies in President Brand Park, district of Harrismith, OFS.
• 2012: "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube.

Sports:

• 1979: Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game.
• 1983: NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule.
• 1985: Alice Miller/Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship.
• 1997: Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges.
• 2012: The NHL announces a further cancellation of games until January 14 brining the total number of cancelled games to 625
• 2005: Joe Sakic is named captain of the 2006 Team Canada Olympic team.












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