Cape Town - Notable Historical Events
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Cape Town - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1652-04-07 |
Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa |
1829-10-01 |
South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools. |
1889-03-25 |
1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England |
1892-03-19 |
3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket Eng v SA (Cape Town) |
1894-10-01 |
First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town. |
1946-07-03 |
The Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1,500 people |
1958-01-03 |
Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick v South Africa at Cape Town |
1970-01-22 |
Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa v Australia, Cape Town |
1970-08-13 |
Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leaflets explode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1976-06-24 |
A Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town, South Africa, is burnt down; part of the broader resistance against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium in their schools |
1976-08-11 |
Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die |
1977-08-10 |
About 100 White sympathisers joined evicted Black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa |
1983-08-20 |
The South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front (UDF) is launched at Rocklands Community Centre in Cape Town, South Afrca |
1988-07-07 |
Five prominent anti-apartheid activists are released in Cape Town, South Africa after being detained for up to two years under the Internal Security Act |
1993-07-25 |
The St James' Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples' Liberation Army |
1996-06-23 |
Archbishop Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in South Africa |
1997-03-07 |
Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome & Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site |
1998-08-11 |
Palestine Liberation Organisation and Palestinian National Authority president, Yasser Arafat, arrives in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela |
2013-03-15 |
24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa |
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Cape Town - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1914-01-20 |
Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor (Winston Churchill-Ike) |
1923-10-25 |
Bob Courtney, The Cape Town Affair |
1925-02-20 |
Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night) |
1951-10-12 |
Sally Little, Cape Town South Africa, LPGA golfer (1982 Dinah Shore) |
1959-09-11 |
David Laurence Frost, Cape Town South Africa, PGA golfer (1988 Southern Open) |
1963-01-03 |
Ashley Chinner, Cape Town South Africa, golfer (1992 CGIA Canadian Tour) |
1969-06-24 |
Thabo Mngomeni, Cape Town, South African football player |
1976-07-06 |
Laura Paouck, Private Gold 5: Cape Town 1 |
1976-07-09 |
Cecilia Grout, Private Gold 5: Cape Town 1 |
1977-07-09 |
Barby, Private Gold 5: Cape Town 1 |
Cape Town - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1983-07-03 |
John Fleming (Jack) Brock, scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, 78 |
2010-10-23 |
Bob Courtney, The Cape Town Affair |
