• 1996: Relations between South Africa and Algeria are smoothed out
• 1970: The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed.
• 1975: 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
• 1936: Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen".
• 1996: Adriaan Vlok, former apartheid era minister of law and order, applies to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty the first member of the former NP government to indicate willingness to admit to political crimes.
• 2005: Shortly before midnight five men drown and two are washed out to sea during what was supposed to be a routine baptism ceremony at Durban's North Beach.
• 1916: Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract.
• 1917: 1st jazz records recorded - "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," and "Livery Stable Blues" by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company.
• 1998: Oprah Winfrey found not guilty in beef defamation trial brought by Texas cattlemen.
• 1954: 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass.
• 1955: Daniel Hugo, SA poet and radio broadcaster, is born.
• 1960: Vera Miles stars in the famous "Mirror Image" episode of the classic CBS television series "The Twilight Zone".
• 1984: Togolese football player, Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor is born.
• 1956: Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open.
• 1978: Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic.
• 1987: NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record.
• 1989: Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career.
• 2009: Johnny Kerr, Basketball player and Chicago Bulls broadcaster (b. 1932) dies.





















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