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The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations.
Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, landing 33+1⁄2 hours later.
A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist�
The first edition of The Illustrated London News, the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine, was published.
World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from an engine issue in his first ent�
The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pu�