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Today in History: February 12th─── 08:00 Thu, 12 Feb 2015
Historical Events:
• 1989: Vlakplaas Operatives kill 3 South African students in Swaziland.
• 1835: Xhosa Chief Hintsa is shot while trying to escape from British forces.
• 1983: Seventy-six people are injured in an explosion at the offices of the Administration Board of the Free State in Bloemfontein.
• 1965: Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean.
• 1989: The Vatican issues a report, "The Church and Racism", in which apartheid is condemned as the most evil, systematic form of institutionalised racism. The report follows confirmation a few days earlier that the Pope would visit South Africa in the coming year.
• 1999: James Aubrey Polley (61), flamboyant former minister of the Methodist Church and anti-apartheid activist, dies. He was detained several times, i.a. because he protected Breyten Breytenbach.
• 2013: North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized.
Arts, Music, TV:
• 1850: The country's first art show opens in Cape Town, with some 500 items on exhibit.
• 1930: Tshikudo Paul Tavhana (also Thavhana), S.A carver and sculptor, is born in Dzanani, Limpopo.
• 1972: Dr Albertus Daniel Keet (83), poet of the first Afrikaans love poems, dies in Senekal, Orange Free State.
• 1978: "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 perfs.
• 1996: 4th ESPY Awards: Cal Ripken, Rebecca Lobo win.
• 1994: Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" stolen (in Oslo).
Sports:
• 1971: Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England.
• 1986: 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana.
• 1989: US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman.
• 2001: 9th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Marion Jones win.
• 2014: Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating.
• 1995: Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m).
• 2000: The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Tunisia ends in a tie 2-2.
Source: historyorb.com & sahistory.org.com
Compiled by: Thandi Xaba
• 1989: Vlakplaas Operatives kill 3 South African students in Swaziland.
• 1835: Xhosa Chief Hintsa is shot while trying to escape from British forces.
• 1983: Seventy-six people are injured in an explosion at the offices of the Administration Board of the Free State in Bloemfontein.
• 1965: Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean.
• 1989: The Vatican issues a report, "The Church and Racism", in which apartheid is condemned as the most evil, systematic form of institutionalised racism. The report follows confirmation a few days earlier that the Pope would visit South Africa in the coming year.
• 1999: James Aubrey Polley (61), flamboyant former minister of the Methodist Church and anti-apartheid activist, dies. He was detained several times, i.a. because he protected Breyten Breytenbach.
• 2013: North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized.
Arts, Music, TV:
• 1850: The country's first art show opens in Cape Town, with some 500 items on exhibit.
• 1930: Tshikudo Paul Tavhana (also Thavhana), S.A carver and sculptor, is born in Dzanani, Limpopo.
• 1972: Dr Albertus Daniel Keet (83), poet of the first Afrikaans love poems, dies in Senekal, Orange Free State.
• 1978: "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 perfs.
• 1996: 4th ESPY Awards: Cal Ripken, Rebecca Lobo win.
• 1994: Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" stolen (in Oslo).
Sports:
• 1971: Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England.
• 1986: 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana.
• 1989: US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman.
• 2001: 9th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Marion Jones win.
• 2014: Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating.
• 1995: Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m).
• 2000: The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Tunisia ends in a tie 2-2.
Source: historyorb.com & sahistory.org.com
Compiled by: Thandi Xaba