- 1913 - South African Government pass the segregationist Native Land Act restricting the purchase or lease of land by Native Africans.
- 1999 - Thabo Mbeki is elected the second President of a democratic South Africa.
- 1997 – Fifty people are killed and women kidnapped in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
- 1976 - Soweto uprising: South African police shoot protesting Soweto students opposing Afrikaans as an instruction language in Black schools.
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Rao luor liel liel luor rao
Dholuo (Kenya)
Translation: Hippopotamus go round the grave the grave go round the hippopotamus.
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