Historical Events:
• 1900: British troops over run Johannesburg.
• 1955: 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill.
• 1978: Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, is buried in Nairobi.
• 1997: Lady Diana Spencer, the former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, is killed with her companion Dodi Fayed in a car accident in Paris. Her funeral was broadcasted in SA by the SABC.
Arts, Music, TV:
• 1955: 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx).
• 1998: Prof. Gerhard Johannes Beukes, Afrikaans expert in literature and dramatist, dies in Bloemfontein.
• 1968: Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover.
• 1976: George Harrison found guilty of plagiarising "My Sweet Lord".
Sports:
• 1895: 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0).
• 1959: Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open.
• 1968: 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher.
• 1968: Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.
Source: historyorb.com & sahistory.org.com
Compiled by: Thandi Xaba
