Historical Events:
• 1900: Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber.
• 2012: South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific’ whaling of minke whales.
• 1985: Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections.
• 1989: Jailed leader of the ANC, Mr. Nelson Mandela, meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid.
Arts, Music, TV:
• 1802: A German baker, Carel Christoph Pabst, starts a music school in Cape Town to train amateur musicians for his orchestra.
• 1943: Angelo Gobbato, SA opera singer and director, is born.
• 1966: Thomas Boydell (84), British born SA minister of Post and Telegraph Systems, dies.
• 1999: Michael de Morgan (73), one of the first SABC television newsreaders, dies.
Sports:
• 1994: Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma.
• 1997: The SA rugby team wins the third rugby test against the Lions on Ellis Park 35-16, but loses the series 2-1.
• 1905: Horace Brackenridge (Jock) Cameron, SA cricket player in twenty-six tests, is born in Port Elizabeth.
• 2009: 123rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick (5-7 7-6 7-6 3-6 16-14), winning a record 15th Grand Slam titles.
Source: historyorb.com & sahistory.org.com
Compiled by: Thandi Xaba
