ON THIS DAY
Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmunds, England.
First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies at Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
Dr Livingstone, I Presume? Explorer David Livingstone, born on this day, spawned one of the most famous encounters when he was found in Africa by journalist Henry Stanley.
Dr James Barry (allegedly a lady, Miranda Stuart) is appointed by Lord Charles Somerset as medical inspector of the Cape Colony.
The Sand River Convention, recognising the independence of emigrant farmers north of the Vaal River, is ratified by the Volksraad of the Transvaal Republic. Representatives of the Boers and British government signed it two months previously.
Marshall Morgan Earp is assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in the Wild West town of Tombstone.
In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
Mahatma Gandhi sends a telegram to Field Marshal Smuts asking him to withdraw the Asiatic Bill. He also issues a press statement describing the Bill as a challenge to Asia and Africa.
Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off Cornwall.
Minister of Defence, PW Botha, attends the launching in France of the first of three Daphne class submarines being built for the South African Navy.
Aid arrives in Mozambique, where flooding leaves as many as 700 people dead and destroys the homes and jobs of another 2 million.
Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistani cricket coach and former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the World Cup in the West Indies and later dies in hospital. After weeks of investigation, his body is returned to his family in South Africa.
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