Historical Events:

• 1978: AZAPO leaders arrested in Soweto.
• 1860: The Orange Free State signs a peace treaty with Moshesh at Wittebergen, near Winburg, after the first Basuto war.
• 1834: Charles Darwin’s expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean.
• 1983: Victor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town.
• 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Arts, Music, TV:

• 1933: Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador).
• 1956: Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam.
• 1903: Hendrik Susan, SA orchestra leader and violist, is born.
• 1991: Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed.

Sports:

• 1919: FVC soccer team forms.
• 2007: Cricket coach Bob Woolmer is cremated in a private ceremony attended only by close relatives in Cape Town. It is believed that he has been strangled on 18 April in his Jamaica hotel room shortly after Pakistan’s shock World Cup defeat by Ireland. No-one has yet been arrested in connection with his death, which overshadowed the cricket World Cup.
• 1975: Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic.
• 2013: Juventus F.C. win their 29th Serie A football title.

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