Historical Events
4- 1961 South Africa’s currency, the rand, replaces the British pound.
- 1961 South Africa’s currency, the rand, replaces the British pound. 🇿🇦 South Africa
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President Jacob Zuma officially resigns as President of South Africa. -
Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala makes history as the first woman and African to lead the World Trade Organization.
Famous Births
2- 1909 Abdelfattah Amr, an Egyptian squash champion, is born in Gezira, Cairo, Egypt.
- 1950 John Kiriamiti, a Kenyan bank robber turned writer, is born in Thuita Village, Murang’a, Kenya.
Famous Deaths
3- 1840 King Dingane, stripped of his kingship after he and his Zulu warriors had been vanquished at the battle of Magongo at the Umkuzi River, flees to Swaziland where he is murdered.
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Morgan Tsvangirai, the second Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, dies of colorectal cancer in Johannesburg, South Africa. - 2021 At least 60 people are killed and hundreds missing after a boat carrying 700 people capsizes on the Congo River in western Democratic Republic of the Congo.