ON THIS DAY
1841 Daniel Lindley, an American Presbyterian clergyman, is formally ordained as minister of the Voortrekkers’ Pietermaritzburg congregation.
1874 Langalibalele, chief of the amahlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason and banished to Robben Island. He is one of the first black activists to mount an armed struggle and be imprisoned on the island.
1906 Martial law is proclaimed in Natal in response to the Bambatha Rebellion.
1916 The Cape Corps – 32 officers and 1 022 soldiers – leaves for the East African campaign for World War I, under the overall command of General Jan Smuts, commander of UK and South African troops.
1936 Lieutenant Tommy Rose arrives in Cape Town from England after a recordbreaking flight that lasts three days, 17 hours and 38 minutes, in a Miles Falcon. 1942 Year-round daylight saving time, aka War Time, is reinstated in the US to help save energy.
1945 The British submarine HMS
Venturer sinks U-864 off Norway in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1951 A battalion of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, South Korea.
1990 Kenyan foreign minister Robert
Ouko is found slain before he was to have presented a report on corruption. Two of President Daniel arap Moi’s closest confidants are suspects, but they are never convicted.
2002 Hundreds of Ethiopians line Addis Ababa’s streets to welcome the return of a replica of the Ark of the Covenant, looted from Ethiopia by British soldiers 130 years before. | The Historian