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Today in History: March 28th─── 08:00 Sat, 28 Mar 2015
History:
• 1825: Frans Reinhard Bresler (58), magistrate in Graaff-Reinet, commits suicide during an embezzlement investigation.
• 1905: Charles B. Adderley (90), colonist after whom Adderley street in Cape Town was named, dies in Warwickshire, England.
• 1918: Santam is registered as a company.
• 1924: Natoo Babenia, political prisoner who served sixteen years on Robben Island, is born. He died on 1 January 1999.
• 1960: ANC calls a nation-wide stay-at-home in protest at the Sharpeville massacre. Passbooks are burned in countless bonfires.
• 1960: O. R. Tambo leaves South Africa illegally on the instruction of the ANC to carry on work outside the country.
• 1979: The World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa is launched in London, with the support of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid. Several Heads of State and Government are its patrons and Abdul S. Minty its Director.
• 1980: All twenty-three mineworkers in a lift of the Vaal Reefs gold mine are killed when they plunge more that two km to the bottom.
• 2001: Dr Molefi Sefularo, MEC for Health in the North West province claims that North West province shows a decrease in HIV infection.
Arts, Music, TV:
• 1875: Dr Abraham Faure (79), registrar and secretary of the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Cape Province and founder of De Honigby, first church publication in SA, dies in Cape Town.
• 1908: Joshua Polumo Mohapeloa, regarded as Lesotho's foremost composer and choral master, is born at Molumong, Mokhotlong district, Basutoland.
• The BEATLES have sold more records than Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, Nirvana, the Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin and Kanye West combined.
• Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13.
• Isaac Newton invented the cat door.
Sports:
• 1982: ARMSCOR's Chairman announces that South Africa has produced a world-beating 155-millimetre artillery system the G5 gun.
• 1999: Brett Macleod, South Africa's super motorbike champion, is killed by on-rushing racers when he fell on the Kyalami racecourse.
• The surface area of your lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.
• The game of Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport from 1900-1920.
• The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb.
Source: sahistory.org.com & www.did-you-knows.com
Compiled by: Thandi Xaba
• 1825: Frans Reinhard Bresler (58), magistrate in Graaff-Reinet, commits suicide during an embezzlement investigation.
• 1905: Charles B. Adderley (90), colonist after whom Adderley street in Cape Town was named, dies in Warwickshire, England.
• 1918: Santam is registered as a company.
• 1924: Natoo Babenia, political prisoner who served sixteen years on Robben Island, is born. He died on 1 January 1999.
• 1960: ANC calls a nation-wide stay-at-home in protest at the Sharpeville massacre. Passbooks are burned in countless bonfires.
• 1960: O. R. Tambo leaves South Africa illegally on the instruction of the ANC to carry on work outside the country.
• 1979: The World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa is launched in London, with the support of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid. Several Heads of State and Government are its patrons and Abdul S. Minty its Director.
• 1980: All twenty-three mineworkers in a lift of the Vaal Reefs gold mine are killed when they plunge more that two km to the bottom.
• 2001: Dr Molefi Sefularo, MEC for Health in the North West province claims that North West province shows a decrease in HIV infection.
Arts, Music, TV:
• 1875: Dr Abraham Faure (79), registrar and secretary of the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Cape Province and founder of De Honigby, first church publication in SA, dies in Cape Town.
• 1908: Joshua Polumo Mohapeloa, regarded as Lesotho's foremost composer and choral master, is born at Molumong, Mokhotlong district, Basutoland.
• The BEATLES have sold more records than Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, Nirvana, the Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin and Kanye West combined.
• Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13.
• Isaac Newton invented the cat door.
Sports:
• 1982: ARMSCOR's Chairman announces that South Africa has produced a world-beating 155-millimetre artillery system the G5 gun.
• 1999: Brett Macleod, South Africa's super motorbike champion, is killed by on-rushing racers when he fell on the Kyalami racecourse.
• The surface area of your lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.
• The game of Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport from 1900-1920.
• The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb.
Source: sahistory.org.com & www.did-you-knows.com
Compiled by: Thandi Xaba
