ON THIS DAY
The Alamanni cross frozen Rhine River in numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
Spanish force in Ireland surrenders to the English army at Kinsdale.
The corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid by Zacharias Wagenaer, Johan van Arckel, Gabbema and Lacus.
Voortrekker leaders Andries Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit (Gert) Maritz, each with his own men, leave for Western Transvaal to punish Mzilikazi for the Ndebele attack on the Voortrekkers at Vechtkop (Vegkop).
Sir Leander Starr Jameson and about 500 Rhodesian police surrender to Boers at Doornkop, near Krugersdorp, after the failure of the Jameson Raid.
US President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.
1906 The air conditioner is first patented. 1944 First use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol).
Mahatma Gandhi begins his march for peace.
Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4 950 000 000 years.
The first Jewish child is born in Spain since the 1492 expulsion.
Second heart transplant in South Africa is performed by Dr Chris Barnard on Dr Philip Blaiberg. He lived one year and seven months with the new heart.
West Indian cricketer Sylvester Clarke knocks out a spectator with a brick during a Test match against Pakistan.
Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st firstclass cricket century.
Right-wing guerrillas ambush a train near Mozambique’s western border, killing at least 22 people.
Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away).
Thirty people die when a bus plunges 400ft off a cliff in Malshej Ghat, India.
A bus crash in Pasamayo, Peru, kills 51 on notorious “Devil’s Curve” road.
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