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South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.
The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg.
The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowde�
The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near J.G. Strijdom Airport in South West Africa (now Hosea Kutako International Airport in Namibia), killing 123 people.
World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
�arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest, bringing attention to South Africa's a�
A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.