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On this day in history: 13 February

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Monday, 13 February 1713 A smallpox epidemic struck the refreshment station at the Cape, after arriving with the crew on a Dutch ship. The disease...

On this day in history: 12 February

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Wednesday, 12 February 1862 Sir Thomas Cullinan was born in the The Cape Colony in 1862. He settled in Barberton, before moving to Johannesburg in...

On this day in history: 08 February

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Tuesday, 08 February 1881 During the Anglo-Boer War 1 –  also called Transvaal War of Independence or Anglo-Transvaal War – a Boer force of about...

On this day in history: 05 February

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Monday, February 5, 1900 Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Redvers Buller conquered Vaalkrans at the Tugela river, but shelling from both sides continued and the British...

On this day in history: 30 January

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Monday, 30 January 1899 Dr Max Theiler, first South African to receive the Nobel Prize, was born in Pretoria in 1899. He studied medicine at the...
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