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2013 Event - No casualties are reported after a U.S. military Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter crashes near the South Korean border with North Korea

2013 Event - Authorities from North Korea, advise authorities to leave South Korea soon, anticipating a possible conflict

2013 Event - China reports it will open the South China Sea's Paracel Islands to tourism before the May Day holiday. Vietnam voices strong opposition this move, as ownership of the Islands is in dispute

2013 Event - After being hospitalized for nine days for pneumonia, former South African President Nelson Mandela, age 94, was released from the hospital

2013 Event - Days after a new U.S.-South Korea military pact, North Korea issues new threats to strike targets in Hawaii, Guam, South Korea and the U.S. mainland

2013 Event - The U.S. military used B-52 bombers in joint military drills with South Korea; in response, North Korea threatens to attack America's military bases in Japan

2013 Event - South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela is released from the hospital after having "successful" medical tests; prior reports stated he was hospitalized for a routine checkup

2013 Event - Anti-apartheid leader and former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, age 94 is hospitalized for, what sources say, was a routine checkup

2013 Event - During a U.N. conference on disarmament, North Korea threatens to destroy South Korea

2012 Event - The launch of a space satellite into space by North Korea is disputed by South Korean defense ministry, who claim it was a disguised test of a 10,000 km range missile

2012 Event - A tight race is expected in South Korea as voters choose between Moon Jae-in, of South Korea's Democratic United Party, and Park Geun-hye, of the conservative Saenuri Party

2012 Event - Outgoing U.S. Senator Jim DeMint is replaced by GOP Congressman Tim Scott, the first black senator from the South since 1881

2012 Event - Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa, challenges party leadership by President Jacob Zuma at the opening of the African National Congress (ANC)

2012 Event - Vietnamese police break up anti-China protests over oil and gas claims in the disputed territorial waters of the South China Sea

2012 Event - Vietnam accuses China of cutting seismic survey cables from territorial waters in the South China, disputed by Vietnam, the Philippines Malaysia, Taiwan, and Brunei

2012 Event - Egypt's minister of transport, Mohamed Rashad Al Matini, resigns after a school bus carrying 60 schoolchildren is hit by a train near Manfalut, 230 miles south of Cairo

2012 Event - Parts of Australia and the South Pacific witness a total solar eclipse, with Cairns being the most populated city to experience this rare event

2012 Event - Former U.S. Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern dies at age 90 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

2012 Event - After a strike over working conditions, the world's biggest platinum producer, Anglo Platinum Limited, fires 12,000 people in South Africa

2012 Event - Typhoon Bolaven hits South Korea. leaving at least four Chinese fishermen dead and another twelve missing

2012 Event - South Africa's Oscar Pistorius becomes the first amputee to compete at the Olympic Games in the 400 meters

2012 Event - A new Olympic Record in the men's 100m breaststroke is set at the 2012 Summer Olympics, by Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa

2012 Event - Tropical Storm Khanun left 16,000 people homeless in South Korea

2012 Event - At a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Panama City, South Korea announces it's plans to begin 'scientific' whaling of minke whales

2012 Event - South Korea announces that it plans to sign a pact with Japan that encourages the sharing of sensitive military intelligence

2012 Event - Israel announces it is deporting its first planeload of South Sudanese illegal migrants

2012 Event - A South African newspaper removes the controversial painting titled 'The Spear' by Brett Murray from its website

2012 Event - Voters in Lesotho, a landlocked country completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa, go to the polls for a general election

2012 Event - Accused of spying, Sudan arrest four foreigners in the disputed border region with South Sudan

2012 Event - After a case of mad cow disease is reported in South Korea, retailers cease selling U.S. beef

2012 Event - In New Delhi, India, leaders of Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and India meet for the 2012 BRICS summit

2012 Event - World leaders discuss nuclear security during a summit in Seoul, South Korea

2012 Event - U.S. President Barack Obama begins a three-day visit to South Korea, as tensions rise over North Korea's proposed missile tests

2011 Event - The New South Wales boat 'Loki' is proclaimed the winner of the 2011 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

2011 Event - The South Pole records its warmest temperature at -12.3 degrees Celsius at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

2011 Event - North Korea states is will accept all South Korean delegations who wish to pay their respects to the late leader Kim Jong-il

2011 Event - In Pakistan's South Waziristan province, 13 militants in a compound are believed to have been killed by U.S. drone missiles

2011 Event - In Georgia's region of South Ossetia, voters go to the polls for a presidential election and referendum

2011 Event - South Australia swears in their new Premier, Jay Weatherill after officially electing him as the leader of the Australian Labor Party

2011 Event - Two South African farm workers begin trial for murdering white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche

2011 Event - In western Ethiopia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees opens new refugee camp for refugees from Sudan and South Sudan

2011 Event - Japan asks South Korea to refute a plan to build a Korean World War II 'comfort women' monument near Seoul's Japanese embassy

2011 Event - In South Korea, the Financial Services Commission reveals they plan to inject more money into suspended local savings banks

2011 Event - A 5.8 magnitude earthquake and two lesser related quakes strike 32 miles south of Guatemala City, Guatemala, claiming 3 lives

2011 Event - In South Africa, scientists find Australopithecus sediba skeletons are 2 million years old, suggesting the hominid species could be a transitional fossil between apes and humans

2011 Event - The South Korean military has police clear protesters from the building site of its new naval base in Jeju-do

2011 Event - In an effort to stop the growth of household debt, South Korean banks temporarily stop making household loans

2011 Event - Snow on New Zealand's North and South Islands disrupts power supplies, causes road closures and closure of the Wellington International Airport

2011 Event - New Zealand's highest mountain, the south ridge of Aoraki/Mount Cook, is renamed Hillary Ridge after Sir Edmund Hillary, first to conquer Mt. Everest

2011 Event - The African Union gains its 54th member, South Sudan

2011 Event - South Sudan becomes a sovereign state after seceding from Sudan

2011 Event - In efforts to avoid food shortages and political oppression, South Korea begins work on a new facility to house North Korean refugees

2011 Event - The host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics will be Pyeongchang, South Korea; the winter multi-sport event will take place between the 9th and 24th of February, 2018

2011 Event - South Korea states it plans to build a new resettlement center for North Korean refugees

2011 Event - For the third straight week, hundreds of Vietnamese citizens protest outside China's embassy in Hanoi against disputed areas in the South China Sea

2011 Event - Ancient Korean royal books looted by French troops in 1866 are returned to South Korea; 1,000 officials and locals celebrate the return of the 297-volume 'Oegyujanggak' books

2011 Event - South Korea's Central Bank raises its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, to 3.25 percent

2011 Event - In Vietnam, hundreds demonstrate against Chinese naval operations in the disputed waters of the South China Sea

2011 Event - New South Wales swears in its new Premier, Barry O'Farrell, following its state election

2011 Event - In South Dakota, Governor Dennis Daugaard signs an abortion bill that requires women to undertake counseling and wait 72 hours, the longest period in the U.S.

2011 Event - North and South Korean officials meet for working-level military talks, the first Korean dialogue in eight months

2011 Event - In a referendum based on official figures, nearly 99% of South Sudanese voted for independence from the north

2011 Event - In South Korea, 1.4 million domestic pigs are buried alive to combat an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

2010 Event - Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, will have a street named after him in Capetown

2010 Event - China and South Korea plan to hold defense talks in February 2011 concerning growing regional tension on the Korean Peninsula

2010 Event - Floodwaters rise throughout New South Wales; they cause thousands to evacuate the Australian town of Wagga Wagga

2010 Event - In a dispute over the use of rare earth metals, China cancels a meeting with Japan and South Korea

2010 Event - Pusan, South Korea, celebrates the 15th annual Pusan International Film Festival

2010 Event - For the first time in two years, South Korea and North Korea reach an agreement to hold working-level military talks

2010 Event - Mexican Naval Infantry discover 72 corpses near the U.S. Texas border, believed to be migrants from Central America and South America murdered by a drug cartel

2010 Event - Afghan archeologists discover the remains of a Buddhist site located south of Kabul

2010 Event - South Korea states that North Korea fired over 100 rounds of artillery into the Sea of Japan, signaling tension along the Korean Peninsula

2010 Event - South Africa's top police officer, Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption

2010 Event - South Korea develops a long-range cruise missile reportedly capable of striking North Korea, Japan, Russia and China

2010 Event - A fuel tanker overturns and explodes in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing over 230 people and injuring

2010 Event - After South Korea's ROKS Cheonan ship is sunk by North Korea, South Korea cuts off trade with North Korea and announces North Korean ships will no longer be allowed to use South Korean waters

2010 Event - Renewed tribal clashes in Sudan's South Darfur state result in 52 civilians killed and 55 others wounded

2010 Event - Nepal declares a national day of mourning in honor of Girija Prasad Koirala, the 'elder statesman of South Asia' who dies in Kathmandu at age 86

2010 Event - Somali pirates seize a North-Korean flagged cargo ship south of Yemen

2009 Event - Slovenia agrees to allow Russia's South Stream gas pipeline to Europe pass through their country

2009 Event - Two mass graves relating to Columbia's long fight with the Farc, were found in northwest and south Columbia

2009 Event - Under investigation for bribery during his Presidency, former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, commits suicide

2009 Death - Helen Suzman, dies in Johannesburg, South Africa, at 91

2007 Death - Ian Smith, dies in Capetown, South Africa, at 88

2006 Event - Han Myung-sook elected Prime Minister of South Korea

2005 Death - Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., Representative-R-South Carolina, 1979 - 1986, Governor of South Carolina 1987 - 1995

2005 Event - South Africa is the 5th country to recognize same-sex marriages

2004 Death - Gibson Kente, wrote about life in South African black townships, known as Father of Black Theater in South Africa, dies

2004 Death - Brenda Fassie, South African Musician

2003 Death - Strom Thurmond, Senator-R-South Carolina 1956 - 2003, Governor South Carolina 1947 - 1951, dies at 100 from heart faliure

2003 Event - Arsonist set a fire in a trian station in Daegu, South Korea kills nearly 200

2002 Event - Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128

2001 Death - Dr. Christiaan Barnard, surgeon, ", performed the first heart transplant, South Africa 1967, ", dies at 78

2000 Death - Harry Oppenheimer, South African Businessman

1999 Death - Mary Kay Bergman, cartoon voice, South Park, dies at 38

1999 Death - Payne Stewart, professional golfer, won the U.S. Open, 1991 and 1999, won PGA Championship in 1989, among others, dies in Mina, South Dakota, at age 42, due to hypoxia from depressurization of a Learjet

1998 Event - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston South Carolina on WAVF 96.1 FM

1997 Event - South African and U.S. surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head

1997 Death - Beam Dai, head of South Vietnam (1949-55), dies

1997 Event - 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea

1997 Event - South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp

1996 Event - South Africa's Constitutional Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution

1996 Event - South Africa defeat Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah

1996 Event - South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield

1996 Event - Gary Kirsten scores 188* for South Africa vs. UAE at Rawalpindi

1996 Death - Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/South African activist, dies at 70

1995 Event - Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 ds

1995 Event - Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket vs. South Africa, a record

1995 Event - Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864

1995 Event - Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe

1995 Event - Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in South Carolina

1995 Event - In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident

1995 Event - Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die

1995 Event - Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria vs. South Australia

1995 Event - 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo

1995 Death - Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/secretary-general (SACR), dies at 68

1995 Death - Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74

1995 Event - Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21

1994 Death - Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Netherlands/South African economist/author, dies

1994 Death - Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies

1994 Event - Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)

1994 Event - Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa

1994 Event - South African President Nelson Mandela visits U.S.

1994 Event - Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun

1994 Event - South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning

1994 Event - South Africa reclaims its seat in U.N.

1994 Event - South Yemen secedes from Yemen

1994 Event - 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa

1994 Event - Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president

1994 Event - Nelson Mandela and his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa

1994 Event - North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen

1994 Event - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]

1994 Event - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr. Nomaza Paintin is 1st black South African to vote

1994 Event - Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election

1994 Death - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32

1994 Event - South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland

1994 Event - Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa

1994 Event - South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police

1994 Death - John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48

1994 Event - ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa

1994 Event - Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)

1994 Event - Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA

1994 Event - Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup

1994 Death - Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea 1964 - 1970, dies

1994 Event - South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs

1994 Event - Battles between army and rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57

1993 Death - Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula), dies at 40

1993 Event - Black and white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution

1993 Event - Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed

1993 Event - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on WYAV 104.1 FM

1993 Event - Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1993 Event - Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed

1993 Event - U.N. lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa

1993 Event - Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss South Carolina wins 67th Miss America

1993 Event - Day of Peace in South Africa

1993 Death - Amy Biehl, U.S. activist in South Africa, murdered at 26

1993 Death - James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl, South Carolina

1993 Event - Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed

1993 Event - Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon

1993 Death - Denis Tomlinson, South Africa cricket leg-spinner, dies

1993 Event - Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South Africa, kills 50

1993 Event - South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections

1993 Death - Andries Treurnicht, founder South Africa Conservative Party, dies at 72

1993 Event - Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40

1993 Death - George Mickelson, Governor of South Dakota, and 7 others, die in a plane crash

1993 Death - Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South Africa, shot to death

1993 Death - Chris Hani, Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50

1993 Event - New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield

1993 Event - South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl

1993 Death - Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies

1992 Death - Helen B M Fennell Joseph, English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies at 87

1992 Event - Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole

1992 Event - Mud storm kills 30 in South France

1992 Event - Heavy storm in South France, 34 die

1992 Event - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die

1992 Death - Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered

1992 Event - Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South Africa

1992 Event - Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42

1992 Event - Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)

1992 Event - England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final

1992 Birthday - Libby [Elizabeth] Callahan, Columbia, South Carolina, sport pistol 1996 Olympics

1992 Death - Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to President De Klerk, dies

1992 Event - Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa

1991 Death - June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73

1991 Death - Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies

1991 Event - South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day vs. India

1991 Death - Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered

1991 Event - U.N. admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North and South Korea, Marshall Islands and Micronesia

1991 Event - 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics

1991 Event - Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC

1991 Event - South Africa readmitted to Olympics

1991 Event - South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws

1991 Event - South Florida and Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises

1991 Event - Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea

1991 Event - South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks

1991 Event - Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa

1991 Event - North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition

1991 Event - 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa

1991 Event - Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die

1990 Event - President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid

1990 Event - Center for Urban archaeology opens in New York City South Street Seaport Museum

1990 Event - South African president F W de Klerk meets President Bush in Washington D.C.

1990 Event - Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die

1990 Event - South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference

1990 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested

1990 Death - Muntu Myeza, South Africa anti-apartheid activist, dies in auto at 39

1990 Event - South Africa President F W de Klerk lifts 4 year of state of emergency

1990 Event - South African troops plunder Mandela's dwelling

1990 Event - North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen

1990 Event - Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party

1990 Event - South Africa and African National Congress open talks to end apartheid

1990 Event - Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president

1990 Event - 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa

1990 Event - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, freed in South Africa

1990 Event - South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th

1990 Event - Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half and loses 102-24

1990 Event - South Africa's President FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political orgs

1990 Event - Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica and South Atlantic

1990 Event - South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress

1989 Event - -18 degrees F in Denver, -23 degrees F in Kansas City, Missouri, -42 degrees F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47 degrees F in Hardin Mont and -60 degrees F in Black Hills South Dakota

1989 Event - Geoff Marsh completes 355* for WA against South Australia

1989 Event - South Africa President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act

1989 Event - South Africa President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu and 4 other political prisoners

1989 Event - South african ANC-founder/leader Walter Sisulu freed

1989 Event - FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa

1989 Event - Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston, South Carolina

1989 Event - Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa

1989 Event - Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa

1989 Event - President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns

1989 Event - South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela

1989 Event - 23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires

1989 Event - Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa

1989 Death - David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered

1989 Event - South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries

1989 Event - FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader

1989 Event - Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission

1989 Event - Murden and Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)

1988 Event - South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa

1988 Event - South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize

1988 Event - South Korean coaches attack New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in

1988 Event - Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches

1988 Event - Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign cease fire treaty

1988 Event - South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola

1988 Event - South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"

1988 Event - Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson

1988 Death - Alan Paton, South African Novelist

1988 Event - South Korea adopts constitution

1988 Event - South African apartheid regime bans the UDF

1987 Event - Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea

1987 Event - South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die

1987 Event - South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed

1987 Event - South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution

1987 Event - South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young

1987 Event - South Africa longest mine strike in history ends

1987 Event - 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar

1987 Event - 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime

1987 Event - David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for South Australia

1986 Event - WIS-AM in Columbia South Carolina changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)

1986 Event - South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested

1986 Event - South Africa censors press

1986 Event - International Red Cross ousted from South Africa

1986 Event - IBM re-forms in South Africa

1986 Event - Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed

1986 Event - South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested

1986 Event - 1 day general strike in South Africa

1986 Event - President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency

1986 Event - P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency

1986 Event - U.S. and West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa

1986 Event - Anti-apartheid activist Helene Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa

1986 Event - South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia

1986 Event - South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela

1986 Event - South Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends

1986 Event - Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen

1986 Event - South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president

1986 Event - South Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents

1985 Event - South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms

1985 Death - Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30

1985 Event - President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands

1985 Event - South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution

1985 Event - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa

1985 Event - South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested

1985 Event - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle

1985 Event - Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa

1985 Death - Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies

1985 Event - South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong

1985 Death - Jack Robertson, South Africa cricket spinner (3 Tests vs. Australia 1935-36), dies

1985 Event - 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)

1985 Event - Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa

1985 Event - South Africa will repeal sex and marriage laws against whites and non-whites

1985 Event - Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South Africa, 19 killed

1985 Event - South Africa President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence

1985 Event - -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)

1984 Event - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize

1984 Event - Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG

1984 Event - President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa

1984 Event - South Africa adopts constitution

1984 Event - South African election for parliament boycvotted

1984 Event - South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years

1984 Death - Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies

1984 Event - South Africa and Mozambique sign non attack treaty

1984 Death - Dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Australia and AIF bat), dies

1984 Event - Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa

1983 Event - 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma

1983 Death - Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered

1983 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years

1983 Death - Balthasar J "John" Vorster, South African premier (1966-78), dies at 67

1983 Death - Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies

1983 Event - Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa

1983 Event - John Sain of South Bend, Indiana builds 3.91 m house of cards

1983 Event - 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South California beats LA Tech 69-67

1982 Birthday - Ian Thorpe, born in Sydney, New South Wales, professional swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, won 11 World Championship gold medals, nicknamed, 'Torpedo'

1982 Event - South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin

1982 Death - Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb

1982 Death - Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies

1982 Event - -117 degrees F; All time low at South Pole

1982 Event - Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon

1982 Event - Reverend A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa

1982 Death - Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide

1981 Event - According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa

1981 Event - South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested

1981 Event - Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles

1981 Death - Griffiths Mxenge, South Afr's anti-apartheid advocate, murdered

1981 Event - Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics

1981 Event - Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))

1981 Event - Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa

1981 Birthday - Lleyton Hewitt, born in Adelaide, South Australia, professional tennis player, youngest male ever ranked number one in the World, at age 20

1980 Event - 46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB)

1980 Event - New South Korean constitution comes into effect

1980 Event - South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death

1980 Event - Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea

1980 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa

1980 Event - U.N. Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela

1980 Event - ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa

1980 Event - South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed

1980 Event - Shawn Weatherly, (South Carolina (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA

1980 Birthday - Angela Nikodinov, Spartanburg, South Carolina, figure skater, 1997 Pacif Sr champ

1980 Birthday - Tatewin Means, Miss South Dakota Teen USA 1996

1980 Event - Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa

1980 Event - Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)

1979 Death - Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated

1979 Death - Elizabeth Bishop, poet (North and South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68

1979 Event - South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa)

1979 Death - Doug Meintjes, South Africa cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies

1979 Event - Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota

1979 Event - South African President Vorster resigns due to scandal

1979 Birthday - Rebecca Stoyel, born in South Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics

1979 Birthday - Juli Keech, Miss South Dakota Teen USA, 1997

1979 Event - War between North and South Yemen begins

1978 Event - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution

1978 Event - Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa

1978 Birthday - Caroline Nicole Brigman, Miss South Carolina Teen USA 1997

1978 Event - Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe

1978 Event - South Africa military goes into Angola

1978 Event - 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy

1978 Birthday - John Smit, professional rugby player, born in Pietersburg, South Africa, hooker, tight head prop, forward, played for Clermont, Natal Sharks

1978 Birthday - Wendy Christina Roberts, Miss South Carolina Teen USA, 1996

1978 Event - Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon

1977 Event - Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa

1977 Event - South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence

1977 Event - U.N. Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa

1977 Event - U.S. recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa

1977 Event - Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa

1977 Death - Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody

1977 Birthday - Jayme Dickman, South Bend, Indiana, 3x20 rifle 1996 Olympics

1977 Event - South Carolina Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen

1977 Event - Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa

1977 Birthday - Paul "Goggo" Adams, cricketer, lefty very unorthodox bowler for South Africa

1977 Birthday - Sara Walsh, South Bend, Indiana, fencer-foil 1996 Olympics

1976 Event - Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa

1976 Event - U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa

1976 Event - Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa

1976 Event - South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them

1976 Event - Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die

1976 Event - Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam

1976 Event - Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa, Soweto Day

1976 Event - Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa

1976 Event - South African troops leave Angola

1975 Birthday - Matt LeCroy, Anderson, South Carolina, baseball catcher 1996 Olympics bronze

1975 Birthday - Mayim Winkelman Bialik, South Dakota, actress, Blossom, Beaches

1975 Event - 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead

1975 Event - 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed

1975 Birthday - Stephanie Camp, Rapid City, South Dakota, Miss America-SD 1997

1975 Event - Battle between Cuba and South Africa troops in Angola

1975 Birthday - Melchior Schoenmakers, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1975 Birthday - Jacques Kallis, cricketer, South African Test all-rounder vs. England 1995

1975 Birthday - Jan Harm Schippers, Dutch soccer player: South Carolina Heerenveen, Veendam

1975 Birthday - John Harm Skippers, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1975 Birthday - Mbali Gasa, Miss South Africa Universe 1997

1975 Event - Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126

1975 Event - U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N.

1975 Birthday - Charlize Theron, South African Actress

1975 Event - Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established

1975 Birthday - Caresa Winters, Miss South Dakota USA 1996

1975 Birthday - Lauryn Hill, born in South Orange, New Jersey, singer, actress, won five Grammy's for 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' album, which sold over 18 million copies worldwide

1975 Event - Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India

1975 Event - Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years

1975 Birthday - Angela Michelle Hughes, born in Anderson, South Carolina, Miss America-South Carolina 1997

1975 Birthday - Temoc Suarez, born in Greenwood, South Carolina, soccer forward, 1996 Olympics gold

1975 Event - Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam

1974 Birthday - Orlando Fuentes, Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, half-lightweight judoka 1996 Olympics

1974 Event - South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies

1974 Event - 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o)

1974 Birthday - V V S Laxman, cricketer, Indian Test batsman vs. South Africa 1996-

1974 Birthday - Geert Jelle de Vries, Dutch soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1974 Event - South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination

1974 Death - Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered

1974 Birthday - Lysa Jackson, Miss South Carolina USA 1996

1974 Birthday - Tony Alberda, Dutch soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen, Emmen

1974 Birthday - Mark Harrity, cricketer, promising South Australia left-arm fast bowler

1974 Birthday - Herschelle Gibbs, cricketer, South African Test batsman 1996

1974 Birthday - ? Rosenkowitz, Cape Town South Africa, 1st sextuplets to survive born to Sue

1974 Birthday - Craig Wishart, cricketer, Zimbabwe Test batsman vs South Africa 1995

1973 Birthday - Melissa Deanne Holiday, Greenwood, South Carolina, playmate, Jan, 1995

1973 Birthday - Adam Bacher, cricketer, nephew of Ali South Africa Test batsman 1996-

1973 Death - William CF Plomer, South Africa libretto writer (Curlew River), dies at 69

1973 Birthday - Joanette Kruger, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, tennis star

1973 Birthday - Ben Johnson, cricketer, promising South Australian opening batsman

1973 Birthday - Shaun Pollock, cricketer, son of Peter South African Test quick 1995-

1973 Birthday - Daniel Marsh, cricketer, son of Rod South Australia slow lefty since 1993

1973 Event - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam

1973 Birthday - Nico Boje, cricketer, South African ODI left-arm spinner 1996

1973 Birthday - Bert Zuurman, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1973 Event - American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota

1973 Birthday - Terrell Wade, born in Rembert, South Carolina, pitcher, Atlanta Braves

1973 Event - US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord

1973 Birthday - Amanda Elizabeth Spivey, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Miss America-South Carolina 1996

1972 Birthday - Marcos Ondruska, South Africa, tennis star

1972 Birthday - Kimberlee Ann McKay, Belle Fourche, South Dakota, Miss America-SD 1996

1972 Event - U.S. Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army

1972 Event - Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)

1972 Death - Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary, dies at 53

1972 Death - Sidney Pegler, cricket leg spinner (leading South Africa prior to WWI), dies

1972 Birthday - Chris Imes, South Paris Maine, U.S. hockey defenseman 1994 Olympics

1972 Death - Max Theiler, South Africa/U.S. microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies at 73

1972 Birthday - Edward Reevey, St. John NB, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 South Carolina Intercol

1972 Event - 14" of rain in 6 hours burst Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 237

1972 Event - Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa

1972 Event - Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77

1972 Event - Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam

1972 Event - North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam

1972 Birthday - Chris Borg, born in Lexington South Carolina, canoe, alternate in 1996 Olympics

1972 Death - Julian H Steward, U.S. anthropologist (South American), dies at 70

1972 Event - Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd

1971 Event - People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

1971 Birthday - Amanda Coetzer, born in Hoopstad, South Africa, tennis star, 1996 Australia semi

1971 Birthday - Wayne Ferreira, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star, Munich 1995

1971 Birthday - William Deering, Jr., South Bend Indiana, pole vaulter

1971 Birthday - Michael Tucker, born in South Boston, Virginia, outfielder for the Kansas City Royals

1971 Event - International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia

1971 Birthday - Joey Gullion, Gallopolis, Ohio, Nike golfer, NIKE South Carolina Classic-18th

1971 Event - North Vietnam demands U.S. end aid to South Vietnam

1971 Birthday - Matt Stone, born in Houston, Texas, musician, actor, screenwriter, co-creator of 'South Park' Emmy-Award winning television series, co-created film, 'Team America: World Police'

1971 Event - South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion

1971 Birthday - Lara Logan, South African Journalist

1971 Birthday - Mariaan de Swardt, born in Johannesburg, South Africa tennis star, 1996 3rd round Australia

1971 Death - George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v South Africa 1924), dies

1971 Event - South Vietnamese troops flee Laos

1971 Event - South African Broadcasting lifts its ban on the Beatles

1971 Event - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa

1971 Death - Edward van der Merwe, cricket keeper (South Africa in 2 Tests in 30's), dies

1971 Birthday - Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer, 1989 winner SA Champ

1971 Event - 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos

1971 Event - South Vietnamese troops invade Laos

1970 Birthday - Edwin Huizinga, Dutch soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen, Emmen

1970 Event - Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen

1970 Birthday - Glenn Murray, Manning, South Carolina, outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies

1970 Birthday - Brett Schultz, cricket pace bowler, South African Test

1970 Birthday - Wilco Hellinga, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1970 Birthday - Steven Jack, cricketer, South African pace bowler 1994-95

1970 Event - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I

1970 Event - South Africa excluded from Olympic play

1970 Event - 50,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia

1970 Birthday - William Martin III, born in Charleston, South Carolina, finn yachter, Olympics-23rd-1996

1970 Birthday - Olaf Kolzig, born in Johannesbourg, South Africa, NHL goalie for the Washington Capitals

1970 Event - 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world

1970 Birthday - Brett Liddle, born in Boksburg, South Afrrica, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 Newcastle

1970 Event - South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia

1970 Event - John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds fine for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland

1970 Event - Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa vs. Australia, Durban

1970 Event - Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa vs. Australia, Cape Town

1970 Birthday - Tom Sier, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1969 Birthday - Anthuan Maybank, Georgetown, South Carolina, 200m/400m runner

1969 Birthday - Antoon Kuil, soccer player, Veendam, South Carolina Heerenveen

1969 Event - 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai South Vietnam, by U.S. is 1st reported

1969 Birthday - Theodore Ernest Els, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer, 1994 U.S. Open

1969 Birthday - Hansie Cronje, cricket captain, solid South African batsman

1969 Birthday - Bart Spark, soccer player, Veendam, South Carolina Heerenveen

1969 Birthday - Errol Stewart, South African cricket wicket-keeper, limited-over 1993

1969 Birthday - Jonty Rhodes, South African cricket batsman, brilliant fielder

1969 Birthday - Erik Tammer, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen, Go Ahead Eagles

1969 Birthday - Melissa Gurney, born in California, tennis player, Virginia Slims of, South Dakota, 1986

1969 Birthday - Johan Hansma, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1969 Event - Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E. Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)

1969 Birthday - Mica Paris, born in South London, England, born Michelle Wallen, rocker, singer, actress, radio and television presenter, known for 1988 debut platinum-selling album 'So Good'

1969 Event - South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse

1969 Birthday - Brian Williams, Lancaster, South Carolina, pitcher, Detroit Tigers, Astros

1969 Birthday - Retief Goosen, South African Athlete

1968 Birthday - Jennifer Palmquest, Wilmot, South Dakota, Miss SD-America 1991

1968 Birthday - Joe Scuderi, cricketer, South Australian all-rounder

1968 Birthday - Elna Reinach, Pretoria South Africa, tennis star

1968 Birthday - Jeffrey Kooistra, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen/NEC

1968 Birthday - Marco Roelofsen, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1968 Birthday - Craig Kanada, born in Portland, Oregon, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE South Carolina Classic-3rd

1968 Birthday - Michel Doesburg, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1968 Birthday - Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean Actor

1968 Event - Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa

1968 Birthday - Theo de Raadt, South African Scientist

1968 Birthday - Tim Neilsen, cricket wicket-keeper, South Australian 1991

1968 Event - South Africa Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed

1968 Death - Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood

1968 Event - Uprising in South Yemen

1968 Birthday - Clare Wood, born in Zululand, South Africa, tennis star, 1986 Futures-Lisbon

1968 Birthday - Dinky van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star

1968 Birthday - Rene Groen, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1968 Birthday - Erik Regtop, Dutch soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1968 Event - Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg)

1968 Death - Theophilus E Donges, South Afr Internal minister, dies at 69

1968 Birthday - John de Visser, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1967 Birthday - Doug Johns, South Bend, Indiana, pitcher for the Oakland A's

1967 Event - 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr. Christian Barnard, South Africa)

1967 Birthday - Reggie Sanders, Florence, South Carolina, outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds

1967 Event - People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain

1967 Event - British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen

1967 Birthday - Gary Kirsten, cricketer, South African lefty opening batsman 1993-

1967 Birthday - Kelly Gallagher, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, playmate, Sep, 1994

1967 Birthday - Chris Patton, Fountain Inn, South Carolina, Nike golfer, 1993 New Mexico Charity Classic

1967 Event - U.S. troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam

1967 Event - Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep

1967 Birthday - Oswald Drawdy, Hampton, South Carolina, Canadian Tour golfer, 1987 South Carolina Amateur

1967 Event - WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting

1967 Event - Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution

1967 Event - WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting

1967 Event - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

1967 Birthday - Ben Fouchee, born in Kuruman, South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer, 1987 South Africa Amateur

1967 Death - Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies

1967 Birthday - Rudi Steyn, cricketer, South African opening batsman 1995

1967 Event - Government bans submarines near South Africa

1967 Birthday - Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer, batsman Warne's bunny

1967 Event - Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London

1967 Event - 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border

1967 Birthday - Shannon Butler, South Lake Tahoe California, 10k runner

1966 Birthday - Clive Eksteen, cricketer, South African slow left-armer 1993

1966 Birthday - Rosalyn Fairbank, South Africa, tennis player

1966 Event - U.N. deprives South Africa of Namibia

1966 Birthday - Allan Donald, cricketer, great South African fast bowler

1966 Birthday - Elana Meyer, van Zyl, South Africa, runner, Olympics-silver-92

1966 Event - Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa

1966 Death - Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister 1958 - 1966, assassinated at 64

1966 Event - WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting

1966 Birthday - Debra Lewin, born in South Burlington, Vermont, Miss Vermont-America 1991

1966 Event - Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission

1966 Death - S J "Tip" Snooke, South Africa cricket all-rounder (26 Tests 1905-23), dies

1966 Event - South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark)

1966 Event - South African government bans Beatle records

1966 Birthday - Carlo L'Ami, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1966 Birthday - Warren Sallenback, South Surrey BC, cyclist 1996 Olympics

1966 Birthday - Meyrick Pringle, cricket pace bowler, South African

1966 Birthday - Bill Spiers, born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, infielder for the Houston Astros

1966 Birthday - Zola Budd, born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, track and field long distance runner, trained and raced barefoot, politically controversial figure, two-time Women's 5000 meters world record holder, two-time World Cross Country Championships winner

1966 Event - South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die

1966 Event - Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

1966 Event - Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting

1966 Death - Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed

1966 Event - South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund

1966 Birthday - Andrew Hudson, cricketer, South Africa, 163 on debut vs WI 1992

1966 Birthday - Tertius Bosch, cricketer, South African pace bowler 1992

1966 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends

1965 Birthday - Mary Waddell Gainey, Hartsville, South Carolina, Miss SC-America, 1991-2nd

1965 Birthday - Andy Dick, Charleston, South Carolina, actor, Matthew-Newsradio

1965 Event - South Africa government says children of white fathers are white

1965 Birthday - Katrina McClain, Charleston, South Carolina, basketball forward, 1996 Olympics gold

1965 Birthday - Aldo Swager, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1965 Event - South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products

1965 Event - South Vietnam General Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier

1965 Event - Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam

1965 Event - 1st large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam

1965 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years

1965 Birthday - Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player

1965 Birthday - John Commins, cricketer, South African Test batsman vs. New Zealand 1994-95

1965 Birthday - Craig Matthews, cricket pace bowler, South African Test

1965 Birthday - David Callaghan, cricketer, South African all-rounder in one-dayers 1992

1965 Event - South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh

1965 Birthday - Mark Rushmere, cricketer, South Africa opening bat in comeback Test 1992

1965 Event - Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling

1964 Birthday - Gary Muller, South Africa, tennis star

1964 Birthday - Perry Parker, South Laguna Beach California, golfer, 1992 Xerox BC Open

1964 Event - British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa

1964 Birthday - Brenda Fassie, South African Musician

1964 Event - Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam

1964 Birthday - Pieter Axe, soccer player, FC Utrecht/South Carolina Heerenveen

1964 Birthday - Fanie De Villers, cricketer, great South African pace bowler 1993-

1964 Event - 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81

1964 Event - South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies

1964 Birthday - Mary-Louise Parker, Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, actress, Fried Green Tomatoes

1964 Event - General Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam

1964 Event - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa

1964 Birthday - Doug Strange, born in Greenville, South Carolina, infielder for the Seattle Mariners

1964 Death - R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies

1964 Birthday - Sam Graddy, Gaffney, South Carolina, 4x100m runner 1984 Olympics gold

1964 Event - Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam

1964 Birthday - Ronnie McCann, Evander South Africa, Nike golfer, 1993 Hawkeye-37th

1963 Birthday - Bryan McMillan, cricketer, brilliant South African all-rounder since 1992

1963 Event - Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea

1963 Event - Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans

1963 Death - Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62

1963 Event - South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy

1963 Event - WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting

1963 Event - WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting

1963 Event - Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, South Dakota, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls and a boy

1963 Event - Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas

1963 Birthday - Scott Dunlap, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Canadian Tour golfer, 1995 South Africa Masters

1963 Event - South African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested

1963 Birthday - Perry Richardson, South Carolina, bassist, Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime

1963 Event - South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested

1963 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested

1963 Birthday - Arnold Oosterveer, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1963 Birthday - Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer, South Pole

1963 Birthday - Ashley Chinner, Cape Town South Africa, golfer, 1992 CGIA Canadian Tour

1962 Birthday - John Samuel Inman, Greensboro, North Carolina, PGA golfer, 1993 Buick South Open

1962 Birthday - Gary Rusnak, Orangeburg, South Carolina, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Permian Basin-2nd

1962 Event - U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa

1962 Event - WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting

1962 Birthday - Christo van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star

1962 Event - Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illeagally leaving South Africa

1962 Event - Nelson Mandela captured by South African police

1962 Birthday - Lucky Dube, South African reggae singer

1962 Birthday - Gertjan Verbeek, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1962 Event - South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes

1962 Birthday - Maarten de Young, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen

1962 Birthday - Philip Jonas, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 Payless-2nd

1961 Birthday - Caroline Gowan, Greenville, South Carolina, LPGA golfer, South Carolina Women's Amat-1981, 83

1961 Birthday - Jon Tenney, born in Princeton, New Jersey, actor, lead role in television series, Brooklyn South, appeared in Fools Rush In, Nixon, was married to Terri Hatcher

1961 Event - John F. Kennedy provides U.S. miltary helicopters and crews to South Vietnam

1961 Event - South Africa vs. New Zealand, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock

1961 Event - John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam

1961 Event - Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack

1961 Event - Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)

1961 Event - WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting

1961 Birthday - Dillard Pruitt, Greenville, South Carolina, PGA golfer, 1991 Chattanooga Classic

1961 Event - Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)

1961 Event - Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth

1961 Event - 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South

1961 Event - South Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested

1961 Event - U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa's apartheid

1961 Event - South Africa leaves British Commonwealth

1961 Event - South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth

1961 Event - U.S. nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hours

1961 Birthday - Roger Wessels, born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, golfer, 1994 Canadian Masters

1961 Birthday - John Thune, born in Murdo, South Dakota, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from South Dakota, U.S. House of Representatives from South Dakota's At-Large district

1960 Birthday - Piet Keur, Dutch soccer player/trainer, South Carolina Heerenveen, AZ

1960 Birthday - Catherine G Coleman, Charleston, South Carolina, Phd/Captain USAF/astronaut, STS-73

1960 Event - Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails

1960 Birthday - Rosalyn Nideffer, Durban South Africa, tennis star, 1993 Futures-Midland MI

1960 Birthday - Mandy Yachad, cricketer, South African ODI opening batsman 1991

1960 Event - South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea

1960 Birthday - Derek James, Durban South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 Infiniti

1960 Birthday - Tom Byrum, Onida, South Dakota, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Panama City Beach-4th

1960 Birthday - Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader

1960 Event - Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa vs. England Lord's

1960 Event - South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill

1960 Birthday - Barry Lyons, born in Biloxi, Mississippi, Barry Stephen Lyons, baseball player, catcher, played for Major League Baseball teams, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, served as backup catcher to Gary Carter, named Most Valuable Player, South Atlantic League, 1984

1960 Birthday - Mark Sanford, born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, politician, Republican, 115th Governor of South Carolina, U.S. Air Force Reserve medical administration officer

1960 Event - South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns

1960 Event - Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed

1960 Birthday - Pat Symcox, cricketer, South African off-spinner 1993-

1960 Event - South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle

1960 Event - Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa and outlaws ANC

1960 Birthday - Keith Musa[kawukhathi] Zondi, South Africa head, Inkatha Youth Brigade

1960 Event - Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning

1960 Birthday - David Marciano, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Det Ray Vecchio-Due South

1959 Birthday - Marty Raybon, Sanford, Florida, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South

1959 Event - De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond

1959 Birthday - David Laurence Frost, Cape Town South Africa, PGA golfer, 1988 Southern Open

1959 Birthday - Adrian Kuiper, cricketer, South African all-rounder

1959 Event - Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa

1959 Birthday - Kevin Spacey, born in South Orange, New Jersey, actor, Dad, Henry and June, Darrow

1959 Birthday - Tim Shaw, cricketer, South African ODI slow lefty 1991

1959 Birthday - Nicky Le Roux, born in South Africa, LPGA golfer, 1994 Atlanta Champ-15th

1959 Birthday - Stan Thorn, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South

1959 Birthday - Sydney P Mufamadi, South African leader, SACP

1959 Death - Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84

1958 Birthday - Curt Allen Byrum, Onida, South Dakota, PGA golfer, 1989 Hardee's Golf Classic

1958 Birthday - Mike McGuire, Haleyville Ala, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South

1958 Death - Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Brighton, South Australia, at age 76

1958 Event - Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia

1958 Event - Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa

1958 Death - John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65

1958 Birthday - Lori Garbacz, South Bend, Indiana, LPGA golfer, 1989 Circle K Tucson Open

1958 Birthday - Debbie Green, born in South Korea, volleyball player 1984 Olympics silver

1958 Birthday - Dickie Thon, born in South Bend, Indiana, Richard William 'Dickie' Thon, baseball player, shortstop, played for Major League Baseball teams California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers, suffered Mike Torrez fastball facial injury, Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Famer, 2003

1958 Birthday - Mkhuseli Jack, South African UDF-leader, consumer boycots

1958 Event - South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks

1958 Birthday - Andie MacDowell, born in Gaffney, South Carolina, model, actress, producer, appeared in 'Green Card', 'Sex, Lies and Videotape', 'Just the Ticket', 'Beauty Shop'

1958 Birthday - Johan Kriek, born in South Africa, tennis player, U.S. Indoor 1982

1958 Event - South Africa government disallows ANC

1958 Birthday - Kevin Curren, South Africa, tennis star

1958 Event - Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia

1958 Birthday - Peter R Mokaba, president, South African Youth Congress

1958 Event - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland

1958 Event - Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa at Cape Town

1957 Event - Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout and Bobby Simpson vs. South Africa

1957 Birthday - Fulton Peter Allem, Kroonstad South Africa, PGA golfer, 1993 SW Bell

1957 Event - South Africa government approves race separation in universities

1957 Birthday - Leeza Gibbons, born in South Carolina, TV host, Entertainment Tonight, Leeza

1957 Birthday - Vanna White, Rosich, N Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, TV host, Wheel of Fortune

1957 Birthday - Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader, UDF

1957 Birthday - Nick Price, Durban South Africa, PGA golfer, 1991 Byron Nelson Classic

1957 Death - Alexander Cambridge, Governor-General (South Africa 1923-31/Canada 1940-5), dies at 82

1957 Birthday - Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor, Posse, South Bronx Heroes

1956 Event - Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa

1956 Birthday - Ena Heese, South African costume designer, Willem of Orange

1956 Event - 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek

1956 Birthday - Timothy J. Roemer, born in South Bend, Indiana, Representative-D-Indiana 1991 - 2003

1956 Birthday - Beth Daniel, Charleston, South Carolina, LPGA golfer, 1990 Kemper Open

1956 Birthday - Janice E Voss Ford, South Bend, Indiana, PhD/Astronaut, STS-57, 63, 83, 94

1956 Event - South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan

1956 Birthday - Sherri Turner, Greenville, South Carolina, LPGA golfer, 1988 Mazda LPGA Champ

1956 Birthday - Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader, spent 3 years in Robbeneiland Jail

1956 Event - South African women demonstrate against pass laws

1956 Birthday - Eddie Edwards, South Africa, tennis star

1956 Birthday - Azhar Cachalia, Scottish/South Africa leader, United Democratic Front

1956 Event - WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting

1956 Event - Noel Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble," premieres in London

1956 Birthday - Trevor A. Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader

1956 Birthday - Shawn Colvin, born in Vermillion, South Dakota, singer, songwriter, guitarist, rock, contemporary folk genres, influenced by Joni Mitchell

1955 Birthday - Wayne Tolleson, born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, professional baseball player, switch hitter, played for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees

1955 Event - U.N. disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics

1955 Birthday - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, South African Politician

1955 Birthday - Gary Streeter, born in Hampshire, England, educated at King's College London, Member of Parliament for South West Devon

1955 Birthday - Charles D "Sam" Gemar, Yankton, South Dakota, army/astronaut, STS-38, 48, 62

1955 Event - WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting

1955 Event - Freedom Charter signed in South Africa

1955 Event - Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, vs. South Africa, Trent Bridge

1955 Birthday - Nigel Griffiths, born in Glasgow, Scotland, politician, Labor party, Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South

1955 Birthday - Peter Kirsten, cricketer, South African middle-order batsman

1955 Birthday - Benny Alexander, secretary general, South Africa Pan-Africanist Movement

1955 Event - South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect

1955 Event - President Eisenhower sends 1st U.S. advisors to South Vietnam

1955 Birthday - Titus M Mafolo, South Africa journalist/ANC-leader

1954 Birthday - Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader

1954 Event - John Strodom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa

1954 Event - President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem

1954 Birthday - Mike Rounds, born in Huron, South Dakota, politician, Republican, 31st Governor of South Dakota, Member of the South Dakota Senate from the 24th district

1954 Event - WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, South Carolina (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting

1954 Event - WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting

1954 Event - WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (ABC) 1st broadcast

1954 Event - At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam

1954 Event - Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South

1954 Event - 111 degrees F (44 degrees C) at Camden, South Carolina (state record)

1954 Birthday - Alice Krige, born in South Africa, actress, Chariots of Fire, Ladykiller

1954 Birthday - Alan [Joseph] Lamb, South African/British cricket player, Northampton

1954 Birthday - Will Patton, born in Charleston, South Carolina, actor, No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun

1954 Birthday - Bulelani T Ngcuka, South African attorney/leader, UDF

1954 Birthday - Rob Crosby, born in Sumter, South Carolina, country singer, She's a Natural

1954 Death - Francis B Young, British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69

1954 Birthday - Jim Seales, born in Hamilton Ala, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South

1954 Birthday - Stone Phumelele Sizani, South African treasurer, UDF

1954 Event - "South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 1928 performances

1954 Birthday - Trevor Rabin, born in South Africa, musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of Yes, a progressive British rock band, film composer

1953 Event - WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (NBC) begins

1953 Event - WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, South Carolina (IND) 1st broadcast

1953 Death - John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66

1953 Event - WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting

1953 Birthday - Greg Evigan, South Amboy, New Jersey, actor, BJ-BJ and the Bear, Melrose Place

1953 Event - WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, South Carolina (CBS) 1st broadcast

1953 Birthday - James Taylor, born in South Carolina, rocker, Kool and The Gang

1953 Birthday - Sanford Jensen, born in South Haven, Michigan, actor, Foley Square

1953 Event - U.S. and South Korea initial a mutual security pact

1953 Birthday - Jimmy Cook, cricketer, South African opening batsman 1992

1953 Death - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies

1953 Birthday - Ralph Ezell, born in Unio,n Mississippi, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South

1953 Event - WCSouth Carolina TV channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 Birthday - John Edwards, born in Seneca, South Carolina, politician, 2004 Democratic candidate for Vice President, Presidential candidate, 2008, U.S. Senator from North Carolina

1953 Event - South African premier Malan visits Netherlands

1953 Birthday - Johnny Clegg, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, Jonathan 'Johnny' Clegg, musician, recording artist, Grammy-Award nominee, mbaqanga, Afro-pop genres, formed and performed with Juluka band, formed Savuka band, popular figure in South African music history

1953 Event - Malans National Party wins South African elections

1953 Event - American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches

1953 Birthday - James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU

1953 Birthday - Myung-Whun Chung, Seoul South Korea, pianist/conductor

1952 Event - WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting

1952 Event - Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die

1952 Birthday - M Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of South African Mine Workers' Union

1952 Birthday - Pat Severs, Camden, South Carolina, country singer, Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake

1952 Birthday - Dave Collins, born in Rapid City, South Dakota, professional baseball player, outfielder, first base coach for the Florida Marlins

1952 Birthday - Paul David Crews, South Carolina, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1952 Birthday - Joel Silver, South Orange, New Jersey, producer, Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard

1952 Event - Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew

1952 Birthday - Popo Simon Molefe, Secretary-General, South Africa UDF

1952 Event - Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa

1952 Birthday - Oupa J. Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant, Ciskei

1952 Birthday - Melissa Babish, South Carolina, swimmer, Olympic

1952 Birthday - Thomas Edward Henderson, South Carolina, basketballer 1972 Olympics silver

1952 Birthday - Omar Henry, cricketer, 1st colored player for South Africa 1992

1951 Birthday - Mary Hart, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, TV hostess, Entertainment Tonight

1951 Birthday - Sally Little, Cape Town South Africa, LPGA golfer, 1982 Dinah Shore

1951 Birthday - Jim DeMint, born in Greenville, South Carolina, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from South Carolina, representative, 4th congressional district 1999 - 2005

1951 Birthday - Chris Smith, born in Barnet, London, Christopher Robert 'Chris' Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, politician, Labor Party, Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, Cabinet minister, first openly gay MP member, HIV positive

1951 Birthday - Cheryl Ladd, born in Huron, South Dakota, actress, Charlie's Angels, Purple Hearts

1951 Birthday - Jan Franssen, born in Hilversum, North Holland, politician, Dutch liberal political party, in 2006, named Queen's Commissioner in South Holland, previously served as city councilor, Nederhorst den Berg, President, House of Representatives 1982 - 1994, mayor of Zwolle, 1994 - 2000

1951 Event - Netherlands and South Africa sign cultural accord

1951 Birthday - John Bentley, born in Deptford, South East London, rocker, bass player, played for Squeeze 1980 - 1982, appeared on albums Argybargy and East Side Story

1951 Birthday - Peabo Bryson, born in Greenville, South Carolina, R&B vocalist, I'm So into You

1951 Event - South Carolina House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated

1951 Birthday - Frank Chikane, Secretary-General of South Africa Council of Churches

1950 Birthday - Yunus I Mahomed, South African attorney/leader, UDF

1950 Event - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea

1950 Birthday - Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist

1950 Event - South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions

1950 Birthday - Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher

1950 Event - South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary

1950 Birthday - Ronald E McNair, Lake City, South Carolina, astr, STS-41B, 51L-Challenger disaster

1950 Event - Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas

1950 Event - South Korean troops exceed 38 degrees latitude

1950 Death - Balthazar H Verhagen, Netherlands/South African dramatist/writer, dies

1950 Event - U.N. troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul

1950 Event - During Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Inchon in South Korea

1950 Event - U.N. lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south

1950 Death - John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80

1950 Event - 1st 407 U.S. soldiers flown to South Korea

1950 Event - U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops

1950 Event - U.S. sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam

1950 Event - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict

1950 Event - Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea

1950 Event - South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"

1950 Birthday - Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer, Those Were the Days

1950 Event - Dutch Prime Minister Malan recognizes South Africa but not China PR

1950 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific)

1950 Event - South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races

1950 Event - Independent republic of South Molukkas declared

1950 Birthday - Itumeleng J Mosala, South Africa president, Azanian People's Org

1950 Event - 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party and South Pacific win

1950 Birthday - Jody Schecter, South African auto maker, World Driver's 1979

1950 Birthday - Glyn Ford, born in Gloucester, England, politician, author, Labor Party, member of Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party, Member of European Parliament for South West England, expert on Asia, wrote, 'North Korea on the Brink: Struggle for Survival'

1949 Birthday - Dumisa B Ntsebeza, South African attorney/anti-apartheid activist

1949 Birthday - Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South Africa Kwazulu politician

1949 Birthday - Anthony Akerman, South Africa, director

1949 Birthday - Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder, WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991

1949 Birthday - Lukas D. Barnard, head of South Africa secret service, NIS

1949 Event - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages

1949 Birthday - Frank L Culbertson, Jr., Charleston, South Carolina, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-38

1949 Event - "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1928 performances

1949 Event - England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes

1949 Event - Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China

1949 Event - South African Reverend Andries P. Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer

1949 Event - Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die

1949 Event - 1st photo of genes taken at University of South California by Pease and Baker

1949 Birthday - Marshall Chapman, Spartanburg, South Carolina, country singer

1948 Birthday - Samuel E Wright, Camden, South Carolina, actor, Enos, Ball Four

1948 Birthday - Moses J "Moss" Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader

1948 Event - Bradman scores 143 Australia vs. South of England, 17 fours 1 six

1948 Event - Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)

1948 Birthday - Mosiuoa Patrick "Terror" Lekota, South African UDF/ANC-leader

1948 Event - Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea

1948 Event - South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy

1948 Birthday - Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader

1947 Birthday - Stephanus S "Tian" van Merwe, leader, South Africa Democratic Party

1947 Birthday - Janie Fricke, South Whitley, Indiana, singer, It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy

1947 Birthday - Mosibudi Mangena, South African black leader, On Your Own

1947 Birthday - Roelof P Meyer, South Africa under minister of Law and Order etc

1947 Event - Compton and Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt vs. South Africa

1947 Birthday - Daniel P. A. "Danie" Schutte, South African underminister of Justice

1947 Birthday - Eric Molobi, born in South Africa, activist, ANC

1947 Birthday - John Traicos, cricketer, in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93

1947 Death - Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies

1947 Birthday - Pieter W. Coetzer, South African journalist/MP, NP

1947 Event - 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic

1947 Event - Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard

1946 Event - Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086

1946 Birthday - Stephen, Steve, Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist

1946 Event - Bradman scores 119 South Australia vs. Victoria, 183 minutes, 8 fours

1946 Event - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released

1946 Birthday - Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist

1946 Birthday - Tony Greig, South Africa, cricketer, English all-rounder 1972-77

1946 Birthday - Charles F Bolden, Jr., Columbia, South Carolina, astronaut, STS-61C, 31, 45, 60

1946 Birthday - Robin Tallon, born in Hemingway, South Carolina, Representative-D-South Carolina 1983 - 1993

1946 Birthday - Leon Wessels, South Africa lawyer/underminister of Law and Order

1946 Birthday - Anne Boyd, born in Sydney, New South Wales, composer, professor of composition at the University of Sydney, recipient, Order of Australia, for contributions to music

1946 Birthday - John Harrison, South Africa correspondent, BBC

1945 Event - South Korea liberated from Japanese rule

1945 Birthday - Barry Richards, extraordinary cricket batsman, 4 Tests for South Africa

1945 Event - Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st U.S. ship to bombard Japan

1945 Birthday - Richard Ottaway, born in Bristol, England, Richard Geoffrey James Ottaway, politician, Conservative Party, attended Brittania Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, Member of Parliament for Croydon South

1945 Birthday - Ian White, born in South Bristol, United Kingdom, studied law, Member of the European Parliament in Wandsdyke

1945 Event - U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa

1945 Birthday - Bill Bergey, born in South Dayton, New York, American collegiate and professional football player, played for American Football League's Cincinnati Bengals and NFL Philadelphia Eagles

1945 Event - U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea

1944 Event - Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands

1944 Birthday - Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader

1944 Birthday - Renier S Schoeman, South Africa MP, NP, journalist

1944 Birthday - M N Aubrey Mokoape, South Africa's Vice President, Azanian People Org

1944 Birthday - Samuel J de Beer, South Africa vicar/underminister of Education

1944 Event - Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy

1944 Event - 2500+ killed in London and South East England by German flying bombs

1944 Event - South Carolina rejects black suffrage

1944 Birthday - Hywel Bennett, born in South Wales, actor, Family Way, Shelley

1944 Event - General Eisenhower postpones South France invasion until after Normandy

1944 Birthday - Myung-Wha Chung, born in Seoul, South Korea, cellist, Chung Sisters

1944 Birthday - Lee Irvine, cricketer, South African batsman, only Tests in 1970

1944 Birthday - Graeme Pollock, cricketer, South African batting prodigy

1944 Birthday - Eugene Terre Blanche, South Africa leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging

1944 Birthday - Joe Frazier, born in Beaufort, South Carolina, heavyweight boxer, 1964 Olympic gold medal, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1968 - 1973

1943 Birthday - Oscar D. Dhlomo, South African Secretary-General of Inkatha, 1978 - 1990

1943 Birthday - Lauren Hutton, Mary, Charleston, South Carolina, model/actress, American Gigolo

1943 Birthday - John Shepherd, cricketer, WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa

1943 Event - British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy

1943 Event - British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina)

1943 Birthday - John H Casper, Greenville, South Carolina, USAF/astronaut, STS-36, 54, 62, 77

1943 Event - British invades Pantelleria, tiny island south of Sicily

1943 Birthday - Eddie McGrady, born in County Down, Northern Ireland, born Eddie Kevin McGrady, Member of Parliament for South Down, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labor Party

1943 Birthday - Wynand C Malan, South African lawyer/NP/DP-politician

1943 Birthday - Nickolas Ashford, South Carolina, singer, Ashford and Simpson-Solid as a Rock

1943 Birthday - Dave Peverett, born in Dulwich, South East London, rocker, singer, guitarist, founded, sang and played rhythm guitar for Foghat

1943 Birthday - Bob Blewett, cricketer, father of Greg South Australia batsman 1975-79

1943 Event - Lead, South Dakota, temp is 52 degrees F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16 degrees F

1942 Event - German offensive in South Western Stalingrad

1942 Death - James Barry M Hertzog, South African premier (1914-39), dies at 76

1942 Birthday - John Du Preez, cricketer, South Africa leg-spin all-rounder vs. Australia 1966-67

1942 Birthday - John P "Jannie" Roux, South African sect to President, Botha/De Klerk

1942 Event - Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India

1942 Birthday - "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, Secretary-General, South Africa Communist Party

1942 Birthday - Thabo Mbeki, South African economist/1st vice-president, 1994-

1942 Birthday - Ali Bacher, cricketer, South African batsman and captain in 60's

1942 Birthday - Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member/heads, Radio Freedom

1942 Event - 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma

1942 Birthday - Larry Pressler, born in Humboldt, South Dakota, Senator-R-South Dakota 1979 - 1997

1942 Birthday - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West, South Carolina, news reporter, McNeil-Lehrer

1942 Event - Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra

1942 Event - Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes

1942 Birthday - Bo Hopkins, Greenville, South Carolina, actor, Dynasty, Doc Elliot, Rockford Files

1942 Birthday - Amichand Rajbansi, South African politician

1941 Birthday - Hermanus J Kriel, South African minister of Planning, 1989-

1941 Event - Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia

1941 Birthday - Jesse Jackson, born in Greenville, South Carolina, clergyman/presidential candidate, D

1941 Birthday - Mogoboya NN Ramadike, South African politician in Lebowa

1941 Birthday - Thomas F. Hartnett, born in Charleston, South Carolina, Representative-R-South Carolina 1981 - 1986

1941 Event - Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon South Carolina, incorporated

1940 Event - South Australia all out for 47 vs. NSW, O'Reilly 5-11

1940 Birthday - Manfred Mann, Michael Lubowitz, South Africa, rocker, Mighty Quinn

1940 Event - Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)

1940 Birthday - Eddie Barlow, cricketer, Great South African all-rounder

1940 Birthday - Richard Wells, Chief Constable, South Yorkshire

1940 Birthday - Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., born in Greenville, South Carolina, Representative-R-South Carolina, 1979 - 1986, Governor of South Carolina 1987 - 1995

1940 Birthday - Jim Clyburn, born in Sumter, South Carolina, Representative-D-South Carolina 1993 -

1940 Birthday - Dawid J "Dawie" de Villiers, South African minister of energy, 1989-

1940 Birthday - Simon Hobday, born in Mareking, South Africa, PGA golfer, 1994 U.S. Senior Open

1940 Birthday - H R "Tiger" Lance, cricketer, South African batting all-rounder 1961-67

1940 Birthday - Pat Trimborn, cricket pace bowler, South African in 4 Tests 1966-70

1940 Birthday - Joseph L. Goldstein, born in Sumter, South Carolina, physician, Nobel-1985

1940 Birthday - Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman, South Africa Progressive Federal Party, 1979-86

1940 Birthday - Joe South, Atlanta, guitarist/songwriter/singer, Games People Play

1940 Birthday - Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader, Pan-African Congress

1940 Birthday - Dennis Gamsy, cricketer, South African bat in 2 Tests vs. Australia 1970

1940 Event - Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Australia at the WACA

1940 Birthday - Tom Brokaw, born in Yankton, South Dakota, news anchor, NBC Nightly News 1982-

1940 Birthday - Barend J du Plessis, South African minister of Finance, 1984-

1940 Birthday - Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet, Fireflames

1939 Event - South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland

1939 Event - Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs. Queensland

1939 Birthday - Christoffel "Stoffel" van de Merwe, South Africa minister of Education

1939 Birthday - Ken Walter, South African cricket pace bowler, 1961-62 series vs. New Zealand

1939 Birthday - Franklin A Sonn, union leader, South African workers

1939 Birthday - Joseph Mosikili, South African actor/singer

1939 Birthday - Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet/painter

1939 Event - South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany

1939 Event - Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada

1939 Birthday - Smangaliso P Mkhatshwa, born in South Africa, Secretary-General, Bishops' Conference 1983-88

1939 Birthday - Geoff Griffin, cricketer, South Africa quick, hat-trick and chuck vs. England 1960

1939 Birthday - Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader, Inyandza National Movement

1939 Birthday - Patrick Cormack, born in Grimsby, England, politician, journalist, author, historian, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire

1939 Birthday - Michael Macaulay, cricketer, Tvl, W Prov, OFS, NE Tvl, E Prov and South Africa

1939 Birthday - Hugh Masekela, born in Wilbank, South Africa, trumpeter, I Am Not Afraid

1939 Birthday - Jay Kim, born in Seoul, South Korea, Representative-R-California 1993 - 1999

1939 Event - England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day

1939 Birthday - Janet Suzman, South Africa, actress, Dry White Season, Nuns on the Run

1938 Event - Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut vs. South Africa

1938 Event - Bradman scores 225 South Australia vs. Qld before Christ gets him out

1938 Event - Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs. South Africa

1938 Event - Bradman scores 143 South Australia vs. NSW, 11 fours 91 singles

1938 Birthday - Dennis RB Madide, South African Internal minister of Transkei

1938 Birthday - Elizabeth H "Rina" Venter, South African minister of Health care

1938 Birthday - [David] Deacon Jones, NFL defensive end, LA, South Dakota, Washington

1938 Birthday - Jeremy Boorda, born in South Bend, Indiana, admiral, U.S. Navy, 25th Chief of Naval Operations

1938 Birthday - Wynne Bradburn, cricketer, father of Grant New Zealand batsman vs. South Africa 1964

1938 Birthday - Richard Dumbrill, cricketer, South African all-rounder in 5 Tests 1965-67

1938 Birthday - Peter Carlstein, cricketer, South African Test batsman 1958-64

1938 Birthday - Dudu Pukwana, Mtutuzel, South African/British saxophonist/composer

1938 Birthday - Billy Mills, born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 10k, Olympics gold 64

1938 Birthday - James Botten, cricketer, all-rounder in 1965 South Africa series vs. England

1938 Birthday - Glen Hall, cricket leg-spinner, South African in one Test vs. England 1964

1938 Birthday - Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander, South Africa army

1938 Birthday - Colin Bland, cricketer, South African bat Maybe the best cover field

1938 Event - Bradman scores 104* for South Australia vs. NSW at the SCG

1938 Event - Bradman scores 107 for South Australia vs. Qld (1st innings)

1937 Event - O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW vs. South Australia

1937 Event - Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia

1937 Birthday - Adrian J Vlok, South African NP-minister of Law and Order, 1986-

1937 Birthday - Jacobus H "Koos" van de Merwe, South Africa attorney/CP parliament leader

1937 Birthday - Chuck Jackson, born in Latta, South Carolina, singer, Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry

1937 Birthday - Ebrahim I Ebrahim, South African ANCer/Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader

1937 Birthday - Peter van der Merwe, cricketer, South African captain of mid-1960's

1937 Birthday - Grahame Chevalier, cricketer, one Test for South Africa 1970, 0 and 0*, 5-100

1937 Birthday - Dorothy Provine, Deadwood, South Dakota, actress, Good Neighbor Sam, Darn Cat

1936 Birthday - W S "Buster" Farrer, cricketer, South African Test batsman 1962-64

1936 Birthday - Neville E Alexander, South african, 10 years in Robbeneiland Jail

1936 Birthday - David Pithey, cricketer, bro of Tony, South Africa all-rounder in 8 Tests

1936 Event - 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record)

1936 Birthday - Chad Everett, born in South Bend, Indiana, actor, Medical Center, Airplane II

1936 Birthday - M. A. "Kelly" Seymour, cricketer, South Africa off-spinner in 7 Tests 1963-70

1936 Event - Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from South Africa in record 4d16h

1936 Birthday - Gary Owens, Mitchell, South Dakota, disc jockey/TV host, Laugh, Indiana, Gong Show

1936 Event - Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test vs. South Africa

1936 Event - -58 degrees F (-50 degrees C), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record)

1936 Death - Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted

1936 Birthday - Ferdinand Hartzenberg, South African minister of Education, 1979-82

1936 Event - Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 vs. South Africa

1935 Event - Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia

1935 Event - Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith vs. South Africa, Durban

1935 Death - H B "Jock" Cameron, South Africa cricket captain (v England 1935, age 30), dies

1935 Birthday - Gary J. Player, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, PGA golfer, British Open 1959, 1968, 1974

1935 Birthday - Paul Barton, cricketer, New Zealand batsman in early 1960's, century vs. South Africa

1935 Birthday - Bobby Richardson, South Carolina, 2nd baseman, New York Yankees

1935 Birthday - Zakes Mokae, Johannesburg South Africa, actor, Comedians

1935 Birthday - George Varnals, South African cricket batsman, England 1964-65

1935 Birthday - Chris Burger, cricketer, South African batsman vs. Australia 1957-58

1935 Birthday - Wynand Breytenbach, South African under minister of Defense, 1986-

1935 Birthday - Reverend Ike, South Carolina, evangelist minister, Joy of Living

1935 Birthday - Andre P. Brink, South African writer, Dry White Season

1935 Birthday - Denis J. Worrall, South African politician/leader, DP

1935 Birthday - Sister Bernard Ncube, South African nun

1935 Birthday - Clive Halse, cricketer, South Africa fast bowler on 1963-64 Australia/New Zealand tour

1935 Birthday - John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South Africa army 1980-

1934 Birthday - Ronald Harwood, Horwitz, South African playwright, Dresser

1934 Birthday - Harold Ralph Henning, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer, 1966 Texas Open

1934 Birthday - Winnie Mandela-Madikizela, South African anti-apartheid protestor

1934 Event - 1st sitting U.S. president to visit South America, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Colombia

1934 Birthday - Abdulah M "Dulah" Omar, South African attorney/UDF-leader

1934 Birthday - Sydney Burke, cricketer, South Africa quick, 11 wkts on Test debut vs. New Zealand 1961

1934 Birthday - George "Sparky" Anderson, South Dakota, baseball manager, Reds, Tigers

1934 Birthday - Marlene Bauer Hagge, Eureka, South Dakota, LPGA golfer, 1950 Woman Athlete

1933 Birthday - Jim Pothecary, cricketer, South African pace bowler on 1960 England tour

1933 Birthday - Gerald Masters, South African/British author, Pan Book of Dates

1933 Birthday - Tony Pithey, cricketer, brother of David, South African batsman in 17 Tests

1933 Birthday - Keith Baxter, born in South Wales, actor, Barretts at Wimpole Street

1933 Birthday - Chris Duckworth, cricketer, South African batsman vs. England 1956-57

1933 Birthday - Kim Elgie, cricketer, South African bat vs. New Zealand 1961-62, Scotland RU International

1932 Birthday - Roger Smith, South Gate California, actor, 77 Sunset Strip

1932 Birthday - Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea, 1988-93

1932 Event - Pieter G. Marais, South Africa minister of Education/Development aid

1932 Birthday - Lloyd Haynes, South Bend Indiana, actor, Pete Dixon-Room 222

1932 Event - Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer

1932 Birthday - Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader

1932 Birthday - Gibson Kente, born in South Africa, wrote about life in South African black townships, known as Father of Black Theater in South Africa

1932 Birthday - Henry Bromfield, cricketer, South Africa off-spinner in 9 Tests 1961-65

1932 Death - Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies

1932 Birthday - Athol Fugard, born in Middleburg, South Africa, anti-apartheid writer, Blood Knot

1932 Death - Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies

1932 Event - Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas)

1932 Birthday - Godfrey Lawrence, cricketer, South African fast bowler, 8-53 vs. New Zealand 1961

1932 Birthday - F. W. de Klerk, president South Africa, 1989-94

1932 Birthday - Miriam Makeba, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, singer, Grammy 1965

1932 Birthday - Buck Trent, Spartanburg, South Carolina, banjoist/singer, Hee Haw

1932 Event - Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hours 53 minutes playing time

1932 Event - South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings vs. Australia (Ironmonger 5-6)

1932 Birthday - J P "Pom-Pom" Felloes-Smith, cricketer, South Africa batsman vs. England 1960

1932 Event - Grimmett takes 14 wickets vs. South Africa (7-116 and 7-83)

1932 Event - Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th

1932 Event - Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval

1932 Event - Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide

1932 Event - Bradman scores 167 for Australia vs. South Africa at the MCG

1931 Birthday - Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance

1931 Event - Bradman scores 112 Australia vs. South Africa at cricket SCG

1931 Event - British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd

1931 Event - Bradman scores 219 NSW vs. South Africa, 234 minutes, 15 fours

1931 Event - Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, vs. South Africa

1931 Event - Bradman scores 135 NSW vs. South Africa, 128 minutes, 15 fours

1931 Birthday - John Kerr, New York City, actor, South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit and Pendulum

1931 Birthday - Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize 1982

1931 Event - Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria

1931 Birthday - Brook Benton, Camden, South Carolina, vocalist, Frankie and Johnny

1931 Birthday - Mitzi Gaynor, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress/vocalist, Les Girls, South Pacific

1931 Birthday - Mark Weinberg, South African/British fiancier/multi-millionaire

1931 Birthday - Eddie Fuller, cricketer, South African fast bowler in 7 Tests 1952-58

1931 Birthday - Trevor Goddard, cricketer, South African opening batsman and opening bowler

1931 Birthday - Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs

1931 Birthday - Hendrick J "Kobie" Coetsee, South Africa minister of Defense/Justice

1931 Birthday - Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper

1931 Birthday - Neil Adcock, cricketer, South African pace bowler, 104 wkts 1953-62

1931 Birthday - Alexander L "Alex" Boraine, South Africa vicar/MP

1930 Event - Bradman scores 258 NSW vs. South Australia, 289 minutes, 37 fours

1930 Event - South Carolina Genemuiden soccer team forms

1930 Birthday - Peter J Clase, South African minister of Education/Culture, 1985-

1930 Birthday - David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader

1930 Birthday - Roy McLean, cricketer, prolific South African batsman played 40 Tests

1930 Birthday - James Gathers, Sumter, South Carolina, 200m runner 1952 Olympics bronze

1930 Birthday - Ian Leggat, cricketer, 1 Test vs. South Africa 1953-54 without distinction

1930 Birthday - Michael Melle, cricketer, South African pace bowler of early 1950's

1930 Event - White woman win voting rights in South Africa

1930 Birthday - Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs

1930 Birthday - Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre, COSATU

1930 Birthday - Magnus Adem Malan, South African minister of Defense, 1980-

1930 Event - WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia South Carolina begins radio transmissions

1930 Birthday - John Waite, cricket wicket-keeper, great South African

1929 Event - Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole"

1929 Event - Admiral Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight

1929 Birthday - Billy Nair, South Africa union/SACP leader, 20 years in Robbeneiland Prison

1929 Death - Nicolaas Theunissen, South Africa cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies

1929 Birthday - Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of South Africa Communist Party

1929 Birthday - Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 1965-

1929 Birthday - Paul Winslow, cricketer, big-hitter for South Africa, 108 vs. England 1955

1929 Birthday - Cuan McCarthy, cricketer, 36 Test wkts for South Africa, 1 career no-ball

1929 Birthday - Jackie McGlew, cricketer, dour South African opening bat of the 50'

1929 Birthday - Hugh Tayfield, cricketer, celebrated South African off-spinner 1949-60

1929 Birthday - Ian Thomson, cricketer, England seam bowler vs. South Africa 1964-65

1929 Event - Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia

1928 Birthday - Zacharias J de Beer, South African physician/MP, DP

1928 Birthday - Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African Leader

1928 Birthday - Jack Nel, cricketer, South African opening bat in 6 Tests 1949-57

1928 Birthday - Peter Heine, cricketer, solid South African fast bowler in 1950's

1928 Birthday - Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg, South Carolina, golfer, US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60

1928 Birthday - James Brown, born in Barnwell, South Carolina, soul singer, 'Hot Pants', 'Living in America'

1928 Birthday - Floyd Spence, born in Columbia, South Carolina, Representative-R-South Carolina 1971 - 2001

1928 Birthday - Clive Van Ryneveld, cricketer, South African all-rounder 1951-58

1928 Birthday - Bettye Ackerman, Cottageville, South Carolina, actress, Maggie Graham-Ben Casey

1928 Birthday - Eartha Kitt, South Carolina, singer and actress, Catwoman-Batman

1927 Event - Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, NSW vs. South Australia

1927 Birthday - Carel W. H. Boshoff, South African head, Broederbond/Volkswag

1927 Birthday - Hedley Keith, cricketer, solid left-handed for South Africa in the 1950's

1927 Birthday - Helenard J "Allan" Hendrickse, leader of South Africa Labour Party

1927 Birthday - Nadine Judd, Nadia Moore/Nerina, South African/British ballerina

1927 Birthday - Eli van der Merwe Louw, South Africa minister of Transport/Manpower

1927 Birthday - Althea Gibson, born in Silver, South Carolina, 1st black tennis champion in a major event

1927 Birthday - James H. Weaver, born in Brookings, South Dakota, Representative-D-Oregon 1975 - 1987

1927 Birthday - George Hunter, born in South Africa, light heavyweight boxer, Gold Medal 1948 Olympics

1927 Event - U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes

1927 Birthday - Martinus J Mentz, South African MP, Conservative

1927 Birthday - Sid O'Linn, cricketer, soccer for South Africa 1947, cricket 1960

1927 Birthday - Arthur Ravenel, Jr., born in Charleston, South Carolina, Representative-R-South Carolina 1987 - 1995

1927 Event - For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath

1927 Event - Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath

1926 Birthday - Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader, 17 years in Robbeneiland Jail

1926 Birthday - Ronald Draper, cricketer, South African batsman vs. Australia 1949-50

1926 Birthday - Gerrit van Niekerk Viljoen, South African minister of Legislation

1926 Event - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa

1926 Birthday - Carlisle Floyd, born in Latta, South Carolina, composer, Slow Dusk

1926 Birthday - Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor, University of South Pacific

1926 Birthday - Gerrit A. Kooy, Dutch sociologist, Apartheid and work in South Africa

1926 Birthday - Edgar Meuli, cricketer, opened New Zealand batting in Test vs. South Africa 1953

1926 Event - Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to New Zealand

1925 Birthday - Christmas F Tinto, South African ANC'er/UDF-leader

1925 Birthday - Ken Funston, South African cricket batsman, 18 Tests during 1950's

1925 Birthday - Kim Dae Jung, South Korean Statesman

1925 Birthday - Richard Burton, born in South Wales, actor, Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf

1925 Birthday - Jayaaram N Reddy, South African politician/banker

1925 Birthday - Virginia Capers, Sumter, South Carolina, actress, White Mama, Original Intent

1925 Birthday - Ruth Mompati, South Africa secretary of Nelson Mandela/W Sisulu

1925 Birthday - Billy Pinkney, Sumter, South Carolina, rock bassist/vocalist, Drifters

1925 Birthday - Gertrude Shope, South African head, ANC female section

1925 Birthday - Alistair Taylor, cricketer, one Test as opening bat for South Africa 1956

1925 Birthday - Alfred B Nzo, South African Secretary-General ANC, 1969-

1925 Birthday - Francois J [Frank] le Roux, chief whip, South Afr Conserv Party

1925 Birthday - Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet, Capricorn

1925 Birthday - David Ironside, cricketer, South Africa swing bowler in 3 Tests vs. New Zealand 1953-54

1925 Birthday - Al Rosen, born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 3rd baseman, AL MVP 1953, N.Y. Yankee president

1925 Birthday - Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner, South Africa 1947-58 avg 64.08

1925 Birthday - Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist, A Walk in the Night

1924 Birthday - John Portman, born in South Carolina, architect, Ivan Allen Award-1964

1924 Birthday - Nigel Green, South Africa, actor, Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File

1924 Birthday - Elias Motsoaledi, South African Umkhonto we Sizwe-commandant

1924 Event - England score 2-503 in day's play vs. South Africa at Lord's

1924 Event - Test cricket ump debut for Frank Chester, vs. South Africa at Lord's

1924 Event - South Africa all out 30 vs. England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7

1924 Event - Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate vs. South Africa

1924 Birthday - Russell Endean, cricketer, 28 Tests for South Africa, handled the ball 1956

1924 Birthday - Stanley Donen, South Carolina, film director/producer, Bedazzled, Damn Yankees

1924 Event - Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co

1924 Event - South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)

1924 Birthday - Henry M Fazzie, South Africa Union/UDF-leader

1923 Birthday - Wilton S Mkwayi, South African ANC leader

1923 Birthday - Nadine Gordimer, Springs South Africa, novelist

1923 Birthday - Nadine Gordimer, South African author, July's people, Nobel 1991

1923 Birthday - Glynis Johns, Pretoria South Africa, actress, Mary Poppins

1923 Event - Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co

1923 Birthday - Henryk Czyz, born in Grudziadz, Poland, composer, wrote contemporary music, performed in Europe, America and South America

1923 Event - Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige

1923 Birthday - John Watkins, cricketer, South African all-rounder in 15 Tests 49-57

1923 Birthday - Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam president, 1965-75

1923 Birthday - James Abdnor, born in Kennebec, South Dakota, Senator-R-South Dakota 1981 - 1987, Representative-D-South Dakota 1973 - 1981

1922 Event - NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket

1922 Birthday - George Fullerton, cricketer, South African keeper-batsman 1947-51

1922 Birthday - Christiaan Barnard, South Africa, surgeon, perform 1st heart transplant

1922 Birthday - Thomas T Nkobi, South Africa ANC-leader, Alexandra-bus boycott 1957

1922 Birthday - George McGovern, born in Avon, South Dakota, Representative-D-South Dakota 1957 - 1961, Senator-D-South Dakota 1963 - 1981, Democratic President candidate 1972

1922 Birthday - John Bromfield, born in South Bend, Indiana, actor, Easy to Love

1922 Birthday - Anton Murray, cricketer, South African batsman in 10 Tests 1951-55

1922 Event - South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR

1922 Event - State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa

1922 Death - Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67

1922 Death - Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, South African Politician

1922 Death - Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67

1922 Death - Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47

1922 Birthday - Ernest Hollings, born in Charleston, South Carolina, Senator-D-South Carolina 1966 - 2005

1921 Birthday - J. James Exon, born in Geddes, South Dakota, Senator-D-Nebraska 1979 - 1997

1921 Birthday - Jeff Donnell, born in South Windham, Maine, actor, Gidget Goes to Rome

1921 Birthday - Willem J "Wim" the Villiers, South Africa minister of Administration

1921 Birthday - Hugh Neill, Lord-Lieutenant, South Yorkshire

1921 Birthday - Andries Treurnicht, Dr. No, founder, South Africa Conservative Party

1921 Birthday - Athol Rowan, cricketer, brother of Eric, South African off-spinner

1920 Event - South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa

1920 Death - Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75

1920 Event - NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81

1920 Event - Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)

1920 Birthday - Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon

1920 Birthday - Jack Cheetham, cricketer, South African batsman, Test captain early 50's

1920 Event - 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1 month)

1920 Birthday - Percy Mansell, cricketer, leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for South Africa

1920 Birthday - David Wright, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, given name David John Murray Wright, editor of 'X', autobiography 'Deafness. A Personal Account' gives insight into deafness

1920 Event - 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off

1919 Birthday - Myron Floren, Webster, South Dakota, accordionist, Lawrence Welk Show

1919 Event - General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa

1919 Death - Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies

1919 Death - Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies

1919 Birthday - Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary

1919 Event - Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina, 2 blacks killed

1919 Event - Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German SW Africa to South Africa

1919 Birthday - Hugh FitzRoy, born in Cape Town, South Africa, 11th Duke of Grafton, Deputy Lieutenant, KG, patrilineal descendant of King Charles II's third eldest illegitimate son

1919 Birthday - Lois Collier, born in South Carolina, actress, Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl

1919 Birthday - Peter Abrahams, South African Novelist

1919 Birthday - Lindsay Tuckett, cricketer, son of Len, 9 Tests for South Africa 1947-49

1918 Birthday - Martin Hanley, cricketer, took 1-88 with off-spin in Test for South Africa

1918 Birthday - Nelson Mandela, born in Qunu, South Africa, political prisoner, ANC, President, 1994-

1918 Event - Dutch government reclaims South seas

1918 Birthday - Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er

1917 Birthday - Helen Suzman, born in South Africa, politician and anti-apartheid activist, served 36 years in parliament

1917 Birthday - Jack Plimsoll, cricketer, South Africa lefty quick, 3-143 in only Test 1947

1917 Birthday - Isang Yun, born in Tongyeong, South Korea, composer, professor, son of renowned poet Yun Ki-hyon, exhiled from South Korea, taught at Hanover Academy of Music

1917 Birthday - Robert Mitchum, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, actor, Winds of War, North and South

1917 Death - William Shalders, South Africa cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies

1916 Death - Claude Newberry, South Africa cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies

1916 Event - 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham South Carolina (state record)

1916 Birthday - Roden Cutler, Governor, New South Wales

1916 Event - Dutch South Sea dike cracks

1916 Birthday - A. P. W. Botha, Orange Free State, president of South Africa

1915 Birthday - Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa, 1966-77

1915 Event - British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa

1915 Event - Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa

1915 Birthday - Charles Hard Townes, born in Greenville, South Carolina, physicist, developed lasers

1915 Event - Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law

1915 Birthday - Christian Beyers Naude, South African anti-apartheid fighter

1915 Birthday - Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Netherlands/South Africa economist, Madame Sans Gane

1915 Birthday - Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poet, That Woman and Other Verses

1914 Birthday - Denis Begbie, cricketer, South African batsman in five Tests 1948-50

1914 Event - Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa

1914 Event - South African troops land in German South West Africa

1914 Birthday - Gail Kubik, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, composer, Gerald McBoing Boing

1914 Birthday - Ted Moore, South Africa, cinematographer, James Bond

1914 Event - Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa

1914 Birthday - Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper, South African in 11 Tests 1938-50

1914 Birthday - Dennis Dyer, cricketer, opened batting for South Africa vs. England 1947

1914 Birthday - William Westmoreland, born in Saxon, South Carolina, army general, Vietnam era

1914 Birthday - Archibald J Gumede, South Africa ANC member/chairman, UDF

1914 Birthday - John Daly, South Africa, newscaster/TV game show host, What's My Line

1914 Birthday - Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor, Winston Churchill-Ike

1913 Event - Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 and 9-103)

1913 Event - Mohandas K. Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa

1913 Birthday - Bao Dai, emperor of Annam/Indochina/head of South Vietnam, 1949-55

1913 Event - Explosion and fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales

1913 Birthday - Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, President South Afr Pan-African Congress, 1986-

1913 Event - Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas

1913 Birthday - Andrea C Bensddorp, Dutch/South African actress, Commensaal

1913 Birthday - Judith Evelyn, born in Seneca, South Dakota, actress, 13th Letter, Tingler, Rear Window

1913 Event - 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic)

1913 Death - Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic)

1912 Birthday - Reta Shaw, South Paris Maine, actress, Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1912 Event - St. Pius X encyclical "On Indians of South America"

1912 Event - Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs. South Africa

1912 Event - Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"

1912 Event - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole

1912 Birthday - Arthur Beaumont C. Langton, cricketer, South Africa pace bowler of 1930's

1912 Event - Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship

1912 Event - English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before

1912 Event - Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen

1912 Event - South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free

1911 Event - South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen

1911 Event - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole

1911 Event - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole

1911 Birthday - Norman Gordon, South Africa cricket pace bowler, against England 1938-39

1911 Birthday - Van Lingle Mungo, born in South Carolina, pitcher, Dodgers, Giants

1911 Birthday - Bob Crisp, cricketer, South African pace bowler of 30's

1911 Birthday - Hubert Humphrey, born in Wallace, South Dakota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1949 - 1964 and 1971 - 1978, 38th Vice President 1965 - 1969

1911 Birthday - Geoff Chubb, cricketer, South Africa pace bowler vs. England 1951-52 aged 40

1911 Death - Bill Murdoch, cricketer, dies while watching Australia vs. South Africa Test

1911 Birthday - Elizabeth Bishop, U.S. poet, North and South, Pulitzer Prize, 1956

1911 Birthday - A. W. "Dooley" Briscoe, cricketer, batted in 2 Tests for South Africa 30's

1911 Death - Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75

1911 Event - South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide

1911 Event - Trumper scored double cricket ton vs. South Africa, goes on to get 214

1911 Event - South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government

1910 Birthday - Cyril Cusack, Durban Natal South Africa, actor, Day of the Jackal

1910 Birthday - Lennox Brown, cricketer, South Africa leg-spinner on 1931-32 Australia/New Zealand tour

1910 Birthday - A "Dudley" Nourse, cricketer, son of Dave, brilliant South African bat

1910 Event - Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Australia (vs. South Australia) It rained

1910 Birthday - Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer, South African leg-spinner of 30's

1910 Event - Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa

1910 Birthday - Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader, ANC/SACP

1910 Event - Union of South Africa becomes a dominion

1910 Event - William D. Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia

1910 Event - South Carolina Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede

1910 Event - Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa

1910 Event - Union of South Africa declares independence from U.K.

1910 Birthday - Alan Melville, cricketer, graceful South African batsman 1938-49

1910 Birthday - Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist, Orphan of the Desert

1910 Birthday - Edith S. Green, born in Trent, South Dakota, Representative-D-Oregon 1955 - 1974

1909 Event - English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill

1909 Birthday - Eric Quail Davies, cricket pace bowler, 5 Tests for South Africa 1935-39

1909 Birthday - Ronnie Grieveson, South Africa cricket keeper/batsman, 2 Tests vs. England 1939

1909 Birthday - Len Darling, cricketer, South Australian and Test batsman of 30's

1909 Birthday - Eric Rowan, South African cricketer, prolific batsman pre- and post-WWII

1909 Birthday - John Cochrane, South African cricket pace bowler, one Test 1931

1909 Death - Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies

1909 Birthday - Gerald Bond, cricketer, one Test South Africa vs. England 1938, 0 and 0-16

1909 Birthday - Louis Hayward, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, actor, Lone Wolf, Survivors

1909 Birthday - Charlie Walker, South Australia cricket wicket-keeper, toured but no Tests

1909 Birthday - Helen Chandler, Charleston, South Carolina, actress, Christopher Strong, Dracula

1909 Event - British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole

1909 Event - David, Mawson and Mackay reach south magnetic pole

1909 Event - Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south

1909 Birthday - Bruce Mitchell, cricketer, South African bat, their top run-scorer, 3471,

1908 Birthday - Harry Oppenheimer, South African Businessman

1908 Birthday - Joshua Logan, Broadway producer, South Pacific

1908 Birthday - Grady Sutton, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, actor, Pruitts of South Hampton

1908 Birthday - Josh White, born in Greenville, South Carolina, born Joshua Daniel White, guitarist, singer, civil rights activist, unique stylings and techniques inspired Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan

1907 Birthday - Syd Curnow, cricketer, South African batsman in 7 Tests 1930-32

1907 Birthday - Richard Harkness, Artesian, South Dakota, newscaster, Story of the Week, NBC

1907 Event - -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)

1907 Birthday - Horace McMahon, South Norwalk, Connecticut, actor, Martin Kane Private Eye

1907 Birthday - James A. Michener, New York City, writer, South Pacific, Hawaii, Space

1906 Birthday - Eric Dalton, cricketer, 2 centuries in 15 Tests for South Africa 1929-39

1906 Event - Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole

1906 Birthday - A J "Sandy" Bell, South Africa cricket fast bowler, 16 Tests 1929-35

1906 Event - South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England

1906 Birthday - H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat, South Africa/Tibet

1906 Birthday - Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator, Zulu-English Dictionary

1906 Event - South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win

1905 Event - 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)

1905 Birthday - George Bissett, cricketer, successful South African quick in 1927-28

1905 Birthday - Joel McCrea, South Pasadena, California, actor, Marshal-Wichita Town

1905 Birthday - Jock Cameron, South African cricket keeper, captain

1905 Event - Whites win right to vote in South Africa

1905 Event - Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South

1905 Event - World's largest diamond, Cullinan - 3106 carets, found in South Africa

1904 Birthday - Jim Christy, righty cricket batter, Transvaal, Queensland and South Africa

1904 Death - S J Paul Kruger, general/president South Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78

1904 Birthday - Quintin McMillan, cricketer, South African leg spinner 1929-32

1904 Event - Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)

1904 Event - 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"

1904 Birthday - Douglas Evans, actor, South Pacific Trail

1904 Event - Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising

1903 Event - AVC Heracles (South Carolina Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo

1903 Birthday - Alan Paton, South Africa, writer, Cry, the Beloved Country

1903 Birthday - Gene Roth, born in South Dakota, actor, 'She Demons', 'Spider'

1902 Birthday - Barton MacLane, South Carolina, actor, Geisha Boy, Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie

1902 Birthday - Strom Thurmond, born in Edgefield, South Carolina, Senator-R-South Carolina 1956 - 2003, Governor South Carolina 1947 - 1951

1902 Birthday - Stanley Coen, cricketer, South African batsman in two Tests 1927-28

1902 Event - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa and Australia

1902 Event - Zulu assault at Holkrantz South Africa

1902 Event - Battle at Rooiwal, South Africa

1902 Death - ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle

1902 Birthday - Flora Robson, born in South Shields, England, actress, Dominique is Dead

1902 Death - Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed

1902 Birthday - Buster Nupen, cricketer, 1-eyed South African quick, great on matting

1901 Birthday - [Ignatius] Roy [D] Campbell, South African poet, Flowering Rifle

1901 Birthday - Hendrik F. Verwoerd, premier South Africa, 1958-66, assassinated

1901 Birthday - Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939

1901 Death - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st President Rep South Africa, dies at 81

1901 Event - NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes

1901 Birthday - Ngo Dinh Diem, president/dictator of South Vietnam, 1955-63

1900 Birthday - Barton Maclane, Columbia, South Carolina, actor, General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie

1900 Event - South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany

1900 Event - South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders

1900 Event - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in South Africa

1900 Birthday - Jobyna Ralston, South Pittsburgh, Tennessee, actress, For Heaven's Sake

1900 Event - South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe

1900 Event - 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)

1900 Event - British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa

1900 Event - British annex Natal (South Africa)

1900 Event - Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed

1900 Birthday - Bob Catterall, cricketer, dashing South African batsman of 20's

1900 Birthday - Izak D du Plessis, South African writer and director, 3rd World

1900 Birthday - Ian Hunter, born in Capetown South Africa, actor, Dr. Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn

1900 Event - British army occupiers Pretoria South Africa

1900 Event - Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa

1900 Event - British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa

1900 Death - Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle

1900 Death - Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69

1900 Event - Battle at Driefontein, South Africa (Boers vs. British army)

1900 Event - Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees

1900 Event - Boer General Cronje surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South Africa

1900 Event - Battle at Hart's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army)

1900 Event - Battle at Wynne's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army)

1900 Death - George Labram, U.S. mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle

1900 Event - Battle at Vaalkrans, South Africa (Boers vs British army)

1900 Event - Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)

1899 Event - Field Marshal Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa

1899 Event - Southampton: field marshal lord Roberts departures to South Africa

1899 Event - Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa

1899 Event - Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)

1899 Event - British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa

1899 Event - Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army

1899 Birthday - Harry Buller Siege Willis, son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith

1899 Death - Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19

1899 Event - Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army

1899 Event - British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa

1899 Event - Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa

1899 Event - 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal

1899 Event - South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England

1899 Event - South African Boers declare war on Great Britain

1899 Birthday - A L "Oosh" Ochse, cricketer, no relation to A E South African fast bowler

1899 Event - 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa

1899 Event - South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum

1899 Birthday - Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter,

1899 Event - 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa

1899 Event - British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa

1899 Event - South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11)

1899 Birthday - William Brann, cricketer, South African batsman vs. England 1922-23

1899 Event - Pelham Warner scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (England vs. South Africa Johannesburg)

1898 Birthday - Johannes J Fouche, president South Africa

1898 Event - U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens

1898 Birthday - Theophilus E. Donges, South African minister of Internal Affairs

1897 Birthday - Jacobus Petrus Duminy, cricketer, three Tests for South Africa 1927-29

1897 Death - Hercules Robinson, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72

1897 Birthday - Cyril "Froggy" Francois, cricketer, South Africa all-rounder vs. England 1922 - 1923

1897 Birthday - Izak W van der Merwe, Boerneef, South Africa writer, Tweetalige Woordeboek

1897 Birthday - Dalton Parry Conyngham, cricketer, one Test South Africa vs. England 1923

1896 Event - U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized

1896 Birthday - Gary Davis, born in Laurens, South Carolina, blues/folk guitarist, A Little More Faith

1896 Event - George Lohmann takes 9-28 vs. South Africa at Johannesburg

1896 Event - Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27

1896 Event - George Lohmann takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa, 8-7 for inning

1896 Event - South Africa all out for 30 vs. England - their lowest ever

1896 Birthday - Harold Hoffman, South Amboy, New Jersey, Governor of New Jersey

1896 Birthday - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer, Men of the South

1896 Event - Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr. Jamesons troops)

1895 Event - George Washington Murray elected to Congress from South Carolina

1895 Birthday - Benjamin E Mays, South Carolina, black educator, Morehouse, Howard University

1895 Birthday - H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain, 1927-31

1895 Event - Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South Africa

1895 Death - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Netherlands engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70

1895 Birthday - Anita Stewart, New York, actress, South of Hell Mountain

1895 Birthday - Izak Buys, cricketer, one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 and 4*, 0-52

1894 Birthday - Cecil Kellaway, South Africa, actor, Mr Earnshaw-Wuthering Heights

1894 Birthday - Jackie "Moms" Mabley, born in Brevard, South Carolina, comedienne, Merv Griffin Show

1893 Birthday - J M Blankenberg, cricketer, 60 wkts in 18 Tests for South Africa

1893 Birthday - Jimmy Blanckenberg, cricket pace bowler, took 60 wickets for South Africa

1893 Birthday - John Miljan, Lead City, South Dakota, actor, Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox

1893 Birthday - John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa, 1954-58

1892 Birthday - Basil Rathbone, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, actor, Sherlock Holmes

1892 Birthday - Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy, bass singer, South Pacific, RCA Victor Show

1892 Event - 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England vs. South Africa (Cape Town)

1892 Death - Monty Bowden, cricket captain (England vs. South Africa 1889), dies at 26

1892 Death - Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies

1891 Birthday - John P Strijbos, Dutch writer, Wandering through South Africa

1891 Birthday - Cecil Dixon, cricket off-spinner, 1 Test for South Africa, 3-118, pair

1890 Event - U.S. 7th Cavalry massacre about 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

1890 Birthday - Horace Chapman, cricketer, leg-spin all-rounder for South Africa in 2 Tests

1890 Event - 1st NSW vs. South Australia 1st-class cricket game

1889 Event - North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes 40th state

1889 Event - North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states

1889 Birthday - Cecil Weston, South Africa, actor, Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn

1889 Birthday - Herbie Taylor, cricketer, prolific South African pre- and post-WWI

1889 Event - Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa vs. England

1889 Event - Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 and 8-11) vs. South Africa at Newlands

1889 Event - South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 vs. England

1889 Event - Start of South Africa's 1st Test, vs. England, Port Elizabeth

1887 Birthday - John van Melle, South African writer, Dawid Booysen

1886 Birthday - Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter

1886 Birthday - Joe Cox, cricketer, South African pace bowler in 1913-14 series vs. England

1885 Birthday - Esther Dale, Beaufort, South Carolina, actress, Unfinished Business

1885 Birthday - Sydney Chaplin, born in South Africa, actor, Limelight

1884 Birthday - C "Ormy" C Pearse, cricketer, 3 Tests for South Africa in Australia 1910-11

1884 Event - 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota

1884 Death - Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46

1884 Event - Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people

1884 Birthday - Rolland Beaumont, cricketer, South African batsman in 5 tests 1912-14

1883 Birthday - Harold Baumgartner, cricketer, one Test South Africa vs. England 1913

1883 Birthday - J M M "Mick" Commaille, cricketer, dual South African cricket/soccer rep

1882 Event - Hatfields of south WV and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die

1882 Birthday - Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole

1882 Birthday - Thomas Campbell, South African cricket wicketkeeper, 5 Tests 1909-12

1881 Birthday - Aubrey Faulkner, cricketer, great South Africa all-rounder early 20th cent

1881 Birthday - Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer, 1912-22

1881 Event - Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens

1881 Birthday - Balthazar H. Verhagen, Netherlands/South African dramatist and writer

1881 Event - South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire

1881 Event - Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under General Colley

1880 Birthday - Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet

1880 Event - Republic of South Africa forms

1880 Event - 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South Africa

1880 Birthday - Percy Sherwell, cricketer, great South African batsman-keeper-captain

1879 Event - Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: General Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu

1879 Birthday - J J Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler, 1902-07

1879 Event - Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa

1879 Event - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

1878 Birthday - C M M Hathorn, cricketer, South African Test centurion in 1905-06

1878 Birthday - A. W. "Dave" Nourse, cricketer, "Grand Old Man" of South African cricket

1877 Death - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56

1877 Event - Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south in New Orleans

1877 Event - British annex Transvaal, in South Africa

1877 Event - Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, South Carolina

1877 Birthday - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist

1876 Birthday - Bert Vogler, cricketer, early South African googly bowler

1876 Event - Race riot at Cainhoy South Carolina (5 whites and 1 black killed)

1876 Birthday - C B "Buck" Llewellyn, cricketer, South Africa lefty all-rounder 1896-1912

1876 Event - Black landowner murdered in Hamburg, South Carolina

1876 Event - White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina, killing 5

1876 Birthday - Robert Dower, cricketer, 1 Test South Africa vs. England 1898, scored 0 and 9

1876 Birthday - Murray Bisset, cricketer, South African wicket-keeper 1899 and 1910

1875 Birthday - Mary McLeod Bethune, South Carolina, slave/educator, Bethune-Cookman College

1875 Birthday - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer, 1st of great South African googlists

1874 Birthday - Joseph Willoughby, cricketer, 2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96

1874 Birthday - Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa, 1948-54

1874 Birthday - J H "Biddy" Anderson, cricketer, one Test South Africa vs. Australia 1902

1874 Birthday - Count Alexander, of Athlone, Governor-General, South Africa/Canada

1872 Event - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales

1872 Event - John Henry Conyers of South Carolina becomes 1st black student at Annapolis

1872 Birthday - Roald Amundsen, born in Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole

1872 Event - Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina

1871 Event - Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa

1870 Event - James W Smith of South Carolina is 1st black to enter West Point

1869 Event - University of South Carolina opens to all races

1868 Death - B F Randolph, South Carolina state senator, assassinated

1868 Event - 1st black cabinet member in South Carolina (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)

1868 Event - FL, AL, LA, GA, North Carolina and South Carolina readmitted to US

1868 Birthday - Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition

1868 Event - South Carolina voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228

1868 Birthday - J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer, one Test South Africa 1892

1868 Event - South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority

1867 Event - General E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors

1867 Event - Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South

1867 Event - Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration

1867 Birthday - Siegfried Passarge, German geographer, Cameroon, South Africa,America

1867 Event - Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South

1866 Birthday - James B. Hertzog, South African general/premier, 1914 - 1939

1866 Event - President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia

1865 Birthday - Monty Bowden, cricketer, England Test captain vs. South Africa at 23

1865 Birthday - Godfrey Cripps, cricketer, one Test South Africa vs. England 1892, 18 and 3

1865 Event - Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land

1865 Event - Battle of Ft. Moultrie, South Carolina occupied by Federals

1865 Event - Evacuation of Charleston, South Carolina; Sherman's troops burn city

1865 Event - Battle of Charleston South Carolina

1865 Event - Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War

1865 Event - General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins

1864 Event - Battle of Honey Hill South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded

1864 Event - Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South

1864 Event - Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge)

1864 Event - General Sherman begins his march to the South

1863 Event - Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South

1863 Event - Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner South Carolina (1700 casualties)

1863 Event - Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina - Second assault US1500 CS174

1863 Event - Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia

1863 Event - South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia

1863 Event - Battle of Charleston, South Carolina, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter

1863 Event - 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army

1862 Birthday - Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa, 1910 - 1919

1862 Event - Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates

1862 Event - Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina (Port Royal Ferry)

1862 Event - Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina, Port Royal Ferry

1862 Birthday - W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer, 7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889

1862 Event - Battle of Ft. McRee, Florida Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina (Port Royal Ferry)

1861 Event - Battle of Port Royal Bay, South Carolina (Ft. Walker, Ft. Beauregard)

1861 Event - Naval Engagement at Charleston, South Carolina USS Flag vs BR Alert

1861 Event - Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina, James Island

1861 Event - Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South

1861 Event - Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South

1861 Event - Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War

1861 Event - Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time in Montgomery, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy

1861 Event - South Carolina seizes inactive Ft. Johnson in Charleston Harbor

1860 Event - South Carolina votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede

1860 Event - Dem convention in Charleston South Carolina divided over slavery

1859 Event - South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"

1859 Birthday - Willem J. Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat

1858 Birthday - Frank Hearne, cricketer, bro of George and Alec, England and South Africa

1857 Event - U.S. occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Is south of Hawaii

1857 Birthday - A S C Wallis, Adele South Carolina von Antal-Opzoomer, Dutch writer

1856 Event - Constitution of South Australia adopted

1856 Birthday - Owen Dunell, cricketer, South Africa's 1st Test captain

1856 Event - Violence in Senate, South Carolina Representative Brooks used a cane on Massachusetts Senator Sumner

1855 Birthday - Olive Schreiner, South African writer, Portrait of a South African Woman

1854 Birthday - Christiaan R de Wet, South Africa, Boer General, Nicholsonsnek

1854 Birthday - Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, South African Politician

1854 Event - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)

1853 Birthday - Leander Starr Jameson, Prime Minister of South African Cape colony

1852 Death - Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59

1852 Event - British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die

1852 Event - British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)

1850 Death - Jose Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies

1850 Event - John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North vs. South at Lord's

1848 Death - Adam FJA van Duyn, governor of South Holland, dies at 77

1847 Birthday - Jacobus Herculas [Uncle Koos] de la Rey, South African politician

1847 Birthday - Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist, Afr Bond

1847 Birthday - Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, South America

1843 Event - Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony

1843 Event - An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston South Carolina thunderstorm

1839 Birthday - Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet, Bell Birds

1839 Birthday - Robert Smalls, born in Beaufort, South Carolina, black congressman 1875-87, Rep-SC

1838 Event - Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa

1838 Event - Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class

1838 Event - Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails

1838 Death - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40

1838 Birthday - Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist

1838 Event - 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide

1836 Event - Adelaide, South Australia founded

1836 Death - Theodore Dotrenge, South Netherland orangist, dies at about 74

1833 Event - Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic

1832 Event - South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification

1831 Event - HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin depart England for South America

1831 Birthday - Pieter J Joubert, general, South Africa

1830 Death - Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies

1828 Event - South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws

1828 Death - Shaka, South African Zulu king, dies

1826 Event - Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens

1826 Event - General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama

1825 Birthday - Paulus Kruger, President of South African Republic, 1883, Boer leader

1824 Birthday - Hercules Robinson, Ire, South Africa Commissioner, 1880-89, 1895-97

1824 Birthday - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Netherlands engraver, PTT Stempels

1824 Event - Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54 degrees 40' N

1823 Event - President Monroe appoints 1st U.S. ambassadors to South America

1822 Birthday - Charles S Crocker, President of Central and South Pacific Railroad

1822 Death - Denmark Vesey, and 5 aides hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, South Carolina

1822 Event - Denmark Vesey, leads slave rebellion in South Carolina

1821 Birthday - Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South

1819 Birthday - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president, Republic South Africa

1818 Birthday - Wade Hampton, born in South Carolina, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

1813 Birthday - James Marion Sims, South Carolina, surgeon/gynecologist, vesicovaginal operation

1811 Event - Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain

1797 Birthday - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer, Great Pull

1795 Event - British capture Capetown South Africa

1795 Birthday - George Peabody, South Danvers Massachusetts, merchant/philanthropist

1790 Event - Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress

1788 Event - South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify U.S. constitution

1788 Event - Captain Arthur Phillip hoists English flag on Port Jackson, New South Wales

1784 Death - Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies

1784 Event - Only known deaths by hailstones in U.S. in Winnsborough, South Carolina

1784 Death - Patrice F earl de Neny, South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at 67

1783 Death - Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49

1782 Event - Charleston, South Carolina evacuated by British

1782 Birthday - John Caldwell Calhoun, South Carolina, Andrew Jackson's Vice President, 1825 - 1832

1781 Event - George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis

1780 Death - Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Netherlands, dies at 67

1780 Event - British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina

1780 Event - Charleston, South Carolina falls to British (Revolutionary War)

1778 Event - Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina

1776 Event - Captain Cook begins 3rd and last trip to Pacific (South Sea)

1776 Event - Charleston, South Carolina repulses British sea attack

1772 Event - Captain James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas

1771 Birthday - Adam FJA van der Duyn, Dutch governor, South Holland

1770 Event - Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales

1767 Birthday - Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, military leader, fought Napoleon's France

1760 Birthday - Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Netherlands earl/general

1758 Birthday - Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician

1756 Event - Governor Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia indians

1735 Event - 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, South Carolina

1734 Event - 1st Jockey Club forms in South Carolina

1732 Event - 21 homosexuality burned in South Horn

1723 Death - Claude F Tserclaes, South Netherlands earl of Tilly, dies at 74

1721 Event - South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony

1716 Birthday - Patrice F earl De Neny, South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council

1715 Event - Uprising of Yamasse-indians in South Carolina

1707 Death - Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53

1697 Event - Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"

1695 Event - King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England

1692 Event - King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands

1679 Birthday - Thomas-Philippe d'alsace et de Boussu, South Netherland cardinal

1677 Birthday - Jacob Campo Weyerman, South Netherlands adventurer/painter/writer

1669 Death - Arnold Geulincx, South Netherlands philosopher (Cholera), dies at 45

1669 Death - Pieter Cuypers, South Netherlands lawyer, dies at 48

1668 Death - Antoon Anselmo, South Netherlands lawyer, dies at about 79

1655 Death - Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81

1654 Birthday - Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet

1652 Event - Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa

1652 Event - Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established

1651 Event - South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm

1649 Death - Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Netherlands diplomat, dies at about 89

1642 Event - Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap

1641 Event - Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands

1624 Birthday - Arnold Geulincx, South Netherland, philosopher, About Virtue

1598 Death - Abraham Ortelius, Ortels/Hortels, South Netherlands geographer, dies at 71

1584 Death - John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71

1580 Death - Gaspar Schetz, South Netherlands, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67

1573 Event - Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy

1573 Birthday - Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer

1569 Death - Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44

1569 Event - King Philip II forms inquistion in South America

1556 Death - Lieven van der Maude, Ammonius, South Netherlands poet, dies at 70

1551 Birthday - Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Netherlands lawyer/historian/theologist

1532 Event - Zealand/South Holland flooded

1527 Birthday - Abraham Ortelius, Ortels/Hortels, born in South Netherlands, geographer

1519 Event - Pizarro receives royal charter for South American west coast

1485 Birthday - Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], born in South Netherland, poet

1444 Death - Robert Campin, South Netherlands painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65

1360 Event - France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel

1322 Birthday - Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian

1311 Event - General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India

1298 Death - Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies

1217 Event - Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France













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