South - Notable Historical Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
681-08-09 |
Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta. |
1217-08-24 |
Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France |
1282-12-11 |
Llywelyn ab Gruffydd/Llywelyn the Last (b. c.1228), the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales. Reigned from 1259 |
1311-04-24 |
Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India |
1346-08-26 |
Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle |
1360-03-15 |
French attack English south coast, raiding Winchelsea |
1485-08-07 |
Henry Tudor's (Henry VII to be) army lands in Milford Haven, South Wales |
1519-07-26 |
Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America |
1569-02-07 |
King Philip II forms inquistion in South America |
1573-10-11 |
Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy |
1598-12-21 |
Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile; all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the 1870s "Pacification of Araucania". |
1600-02-19 |
The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. |
1631-11-04 |
Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of South Netherlands |
1641-12-06 |
Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands |
1642-08-13 |
Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap |
1642-12-13 |
Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the South Island of present day New Zealand; initially he calls it Staten Landt and changes it a year later to Nieuw Zeeland |
1651-03-05 |
South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm |
1652-04-06 |
Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under John of Riebeeck |
1652-04-07 |
Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa |
1692-03-26 |
King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands |
1695-10-10 |
King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England |
1697-03-20 |
Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land" |
1715-04-15 |
Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. |
1720-01-06 |
The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings. |
1721-05-29 |
South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony |
1770-04-20 |
Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales |
1772-07-13 |
Captain James Cook begins 2nd voyage aboard the Resolution to the South Seas to search for Terra Australis (Southern continent) |
1774-01-30 |
Captain Cook reaches 71°10' south, 1820km from south pole (record) |
1776-11-30 |
Captain Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific (South Sea) |
1778-02-05 |
Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina |
1780-05-12 |
British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina (Revolutionary War) |
1781-08-20 |
George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis |
1788-01-26 |
Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the English flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day |
1788-05-23 |
South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution |
1790-05-26 |
Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress |
1795-09-16 |
British capture Capetown South Africa |
1796-08-17 |
British beat Batavian navy in Saldanha Bay South Africa |
1803-07-26 |
The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London. |
1804-03-04 |
The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising. |
1811-07-05 |
Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain |
1813-05-23 |
South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator") |
1815-05-16 |
The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath in the upper Blue Mountains. |
1819-02-19 |
British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III. |
1822-06-16 |
Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina |
1822-07-14 |
Slave revolt in South Carolina under Denmark Vesey/Peter Poyas |
1823-01-27 |
President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America |
1824-04-17 |
Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40'N |
1826-03-14 |
General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama |
1826-08-24 |
Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Liege) opens |
1828-12-19 |
South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws |
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. |
1831-12-27 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs England for South America |
1832-07-24 |
Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass. |
1832-11-24 |
South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification |
1833-01-03 |
Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic |
1836-06-18 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa |
1836-07-27 |
Adelaide, South Australia, founded |
1836-08-17 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time |
1838-01-01 |
1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide |
1838-04-18 |
Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails |
1838-08-23 |
Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class |
1838-12-16 |
Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa |
1840-05-21 |
Captain William Hobson proclaims British sovereignty over New Zealand; the North Island by treaty and the South Island by 'discovery' |
1840-05-22 |
The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished. |
1840-08-18 |
French colony established in Akaroa, South Island of New Zealand |
1841-05-03 |
New Zealand proclaimed a colony independent of New South Wales |
1843-07-02 |
An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina |
1843-08-08 |
Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony |
1846-07-09 |
The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress. |
1848-04-26 |
Alfred Russel Wallace departs the U.K. for South America, beginning four years of travel, collecting, and research in the region |
1850-07-15 |
John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's |
1852-01-17 |
British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa) |
1852-02-26 |
British troopship Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die, 193 survive |
1852-10-01 |
Alfred Russel Wallace returns to the U.K. after four years of travel, collecting, and research in South America |
1853-12-30 |
A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon (ornithopod dinosaur) created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London. |
1854-02-17 |
Britain recognises independence of Orange Free State (South Africa) |
1856-10-24 |
Constitution of South Australia adopted |
1857-01-24 |
The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia. |
1857-09-30 |
US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is south of Hawaii |
1859-06-06 |
Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day). |
1859-12-18 |
South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth" |
1860-02-13 |
King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes |
1860-12-20 |
South Carolina secedes from the Union (US Civil War) |
1861-01-09 |
A Union merchant ship, the Star of the West, is fired upon as it tries to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina |
1861-05-03 |
Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan for the North against the South in American Civil War |
1861-05-13 |
The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. |
1861-05-18 |
Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South |
1861-05-26 |
US Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South |
1861-07-21 |
1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va - South wins |
1862-09-14 |
Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates |
1863-05-02 |
South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va |
1863-07-06 |
Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia |
1863-12-08 |
Abraham Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of South |
1864-01-14 |
General Sherman begins his march to the South |
1864-05-11 |
Battle of Yellow Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge) |
1864-10-05 |
Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South |
1865-02-01 |
General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins |
1867-05-01 |
Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration |
1867-06-22 |
Leopold Marquard, South African clergyman, missionary and educationist, 80 |
1867-08-01 |
Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn) |
1869-03-03 |
University of South Carolina opens to all races |
1870-07-30 |
The Republic of Klipdrift is proclaimed by Transvaal President Andries Pretorius after the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a flood of treasure hunters; ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics |
1870-08-17 |
Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st US woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming) |
1871-10-17 |
Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa |
1871-11-28 |
Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in South Carolina |
1872-01-29 |
Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina |
1872-03-11 |
Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. |
1872-10-19 |
World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales |
1877-04-12 |
British annex Transvaal, in South Africa |
1877-04-24 |
Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans) |
1878-09-30 |
Great Flood hits New Zealand's South Island |
1879-01-11 |
Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins |
1879-01-22 |
Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa |
1879-07-31 |
The first cable connection between South Africa and Europe is laid by the British electrical engineer Charles Tilston Bright as part of his project to link the British Empire with growing telecommunications technologies |
1879-11-28 |
Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu |
1880-12-08 |
5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa |
1880-12-16 |
Transvaal region declares itself as the Republic of South Africa |
1881-03-04 |
South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire |
1881-04-18 |
Natural History Museum opens in South Kensington, England |
1882-06-06 |
The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River. |
1882-08-07 |
Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die |
1883-01-02 |
Battle of Boschberg takes place in South Africa as part of the Mapoch War |
1884-09-04 |
Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia. |
1886-06-13 |
King Ludwig II of Bavaria found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM at 40. Builder of palace of Neuschwanstein and patron of Wagner |
1888-10-29 |
Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for British South Africa Company |
1889-03-12 |
Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth |
1889-03-26 |
Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England |
1889-03-26 |
Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands |
1889-03-26 |
South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England |
1889-11-02 |
North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States |
1890-02-14 |
1st NSW v South Australia 1st-class cricket game |
1890-11-04 |
Prince of Wales opens first underground station at Stockwell, South London |
1892-06-06 |
Chicago South Side Elevated Railroad opens (1st 3.6 miles) |
1893-01-01 |
The railway line from Germiston to Pretoria, South Africa, is opened to traffic. |
1894-01-01 |
South African Amateur Athletic Union is founded in Johannesburg. |
1894-06-25 |
Boer leader Paul Kruger meets the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station in South Africa and accompanies him to his hotel to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders (Foreigners) |
1894-06-28 |
The Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill, South Africa |
1895-07-08 |
Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa |
1896-01-02 |
Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops) |
1896-01-16 |
Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire. |
1896-02-14 |
George Lohmann takes a hat-trick v South Africa, 8-7 for inning |
1896-02-14 |
South Africa all out for 30 v England - their lowest ever |
1896-02-24 |
Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27 |
1896-03-02 |
George Lohmann takes 9-28 v South Africa at Johannesburg |
1896-06-11 |
US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized |
1897-02-01 |
Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul. |
1897-07-16 |
The South African Committee, investigating the Jameson Raid releases its report finding that it was conducted almost implicitly through the support and encouragement of Cecil John Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal |
1898-04-20 |
US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens |
1899-04-04 |
South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11) |
1899-09-08 |
British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa |
1899-09-17 |
1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa |
1899-10-09 |
1st British troops reaches Durban, South Africa |
1899-10-09 |
South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum |
1899-10-11 |
South African Boers declare war on Great Britain |
1899-10-12 |
South Africa Boer Republic declares war on Britain |
1899-10-13 |
7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal |
1899-10-14 |
Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa |
1899-10-22 |
British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa |
1899-10-24 |
Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army |
1899-12-10 |
-15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa |
1899-12-10 |
Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army |
1899-12-15 |
Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army) |
1899-12-18 |
Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa |
1899-12-23 |
British Field Marshall Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa for the 2nd Boer War |
1900-01-21 |
The second contingent of Canadian troops sails from Halifax to fight in South Africa against the Boers |
1900-01-24 |
Battle of Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-06 |
The Battle of Vaal Krantz, South Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-15 |
British troops relieve Kimberly, South Africa, a city under siege by the Boers since October 1899, during the Boer War. |
1900-02-22 |
Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-23 |
Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-27 |
Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa |
1900-03-07 |
Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger flees |
1900-03-10 |
Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-03-17 |
In South Africa, British troops relieve Mafeking, besieged by the Boers since 13 October, 1899. |
1900-03-27 |
Recognising that the war in South Africa is going to take a major commitment, Parliament passes the War Loan Act, calling for £35 million to support the fight against the Boers. |
1900-05-26 |
British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa |
1900-05-27 |
Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa |
1900-05-28 |
Paul Kruger, President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, flees its capital, Pretoria, and goes to Watervalboven to evade the advancing British. |
1900-06-01 |
British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa |
1900-06-05 |
Pretoria, capital of the Boer Republic of South Africa, falls to the British led by General Buller |
1900-08-30 |
Last 2,000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt, South Africa, freed |
1900-09-03 |
With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa |
1900-09-06 |
British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa |
1900-09-10 |
20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record) |
1900-09-15 |
A Boer delegation issues an appeal at the Hague, Netherlands, that the major powers intervene in the war in South Africa |
1900-10-19 |
South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe |
1900-10-25 |
Great Britain annexes the former Boer South African Republic, renaming it the Transvaal Colony |
1900-11-22 |
Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France |
1900-11-29 |
General Horatio Kitchener assumes command of the British forces in South Africa from General Lord Roberts |
1900-12-01 |
Exiled South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders and on the same day is declined a visit from the German Kaiser |
1900-12-02 |
Exiled South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany, though the Kaiser refuses the meet him |
1901-01-08 |
New South Wales score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes |
1901-02-27 |
A General Committee of National Liberal Federation meets and adopts a resolution deploring the continuation of the war in South Africa and condemning the British Government's insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers |
1901-05-24 |
Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales. |
1901-07-16 |
The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War |
1901-07-25 |
Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War |
1902-01-10 |
Although it has professed neutrality in the Boer War, German Chancellor von Bulow joins others in attacking British actions in South Africa |
1902-04-11 |
Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa |
1902-05-06 |
Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa |
1902-10-10 |
South Africa's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht |
1902-10-11 |
Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa & Australia |
1903-08-15 |
The New Zealand All Blacks play their first Rugby Test Match against Australia's Wallabies at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; New Zealand wins, 22-3 |
1904-01-11 |
Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising |
1904-02-22 |
The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908. |
1904-03-18 |
1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)" |
1904-04-21 |
Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League) |
1904-05-30 |
The Japanese Army capture the City of Dairen after landing troops along the south coast of Manchuria |
1904-06-22 |
Chinese laborers arrive in South Africa following a severe labor shortage |
1905-01-26 |
World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa |
1905-03-25 |
Confederate battle flags captured during the American Civil War are returned to South |
1905-04-25 |
Whites win right to vote in South Africa |
1905-12-11 |
120°F (49°C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record) |
1906-01-01 |
The poll tax of £1 per head on all adult male inhabitants of Natal, South Africa, except indentured Indians and married Blacks, imposed by the Natal parliament in 1905, becomes payable. |
1906-01-04 |
South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win |
1906-04-02 |
South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England |
1906-09-11 |
Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa. |
1906-09-12 |
The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. |
1906-09-16 |
Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole |
1907-02-26 |
Louis Botha Het Volk Party wins a majority in the election in Transvaal, South Africa |
1907-06-01 |
-27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record) |
1908-04-20 |
Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League. |
1909-01-09 |
Ernest Shackleton as part of the British Nimrod Expedition reaches a record farthest South latitude (88°23' south) |
1909-01-16 |
British explorers David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole as part of the Nimrod Expedition |
1909-06-15 |
Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference. |
1909-09-02 |
King Edward VII signs South Africa Act |
1909-09-20 |
The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act; it calls for union of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal; and both English and Dutch as official languages |
1910-02-26 |
Gandhi supports the African People's Organisations resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales in South Africa as a day of mourning in protest against the South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans in the upcoming Union of South Africa |
1910-04-27 |
Louis Botha and James Hertzog establish the moderate nationalists South African Party promising equality of Britons and Boers |
1910-05-31 |
Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa |
1910-05-31 |
Union of South Africa declares independence from UK |
1910-06-13 |
William D Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia |
1910-07-01 |
Union of South Africa becomes a dominion |
1910-09-15 |
Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa |
1910-11-04 |
Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained |
1911-01-01 |
South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government |
1911-01-10 |
Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214 |
1911-01-13 |
South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide |
1911-03-13 |
The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association is formed at a meeting in Durban, South Africa, and has at its aim to fight the infamous 3 poll tax |
1911-06-22 |
King George V crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea. |
1911-10-20 |
Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole |
1911-10-24 |
Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole |
1911-12-14 |
South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen |
1912-01-03 |
South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free |
1912-01-17 |
Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen |
1912-02-15 |
Fram reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship |
1912-03-07 |
Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole |
1912-03-29 |
Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far" |
1912-05-28 |
Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Aust v South Africa |
1912-06-07 |
St Pius X encyclical "On Indians of South America" |
1912-10-02 |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, at invitation of Gandhi, arrives in South Africa on a 26-day tour; he also visits Tolstoy Farm |
1913-01-02 |
Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa. |
1913-02-28 |
6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic) |
1913-03-14 |
South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Moslem and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid |
1913-06-14 |
The South African Government pass the Immigration Act, which restricts the entry and free movement of Asians; it leads to widespread agitation and rioting by resident Indians, led by Gandhi |
1913-06-16 |
South African Government pass the segregationist Native Land Act, which restricts purchase or lease of land by native Africans |
1913-06-19 |
Natives Land Act, Act No 27, passed in South Africa: confines Africans to hopelessly overcrowded reserves and deprives them of rights to purchase land outside the native reserves |
1913-07-25 |
A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland |
1913-09-02 |
Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas |
1913-09-22 |
The first batch of Indian passive resisters, consisting of 12 men and 4 women (including Mrs. Kasturba Gandhi) are arrested at Volksrust and imprisoned in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
1913-09-23 |
Women protests take place in the Free State, South Africa, led by Charlotte Maxeke, resisting government attempts to impose passes on women; passes are burnt in front of the municipal offices |
1913-11-06 |
Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa |
1913-12-30 |
Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103) |
1914-01-20 |
The first group of Transvaal Indian women satyagrahis are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison in South Africa after three months imprisonment |
1914-06-30 |
Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa |
1914-07-18 |
Gandhi leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance |
1914-08-15 |
The first large public gathering of Boers in South Africa who do not want to support Britain in a war against Germany; British authorities will try to repress this movement, but discontent spreads |
1914-09-18 |
South African troops land in German South West Africa |
1914-09-22 |
Louis Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa, assumes command of the armed forced after having dismissed General Beyers because of his resistance to aiding British in the war against Germany |
1914-10-13 |
Pro-German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa |
1915-03-05 |
World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend. |
1915-06-21 |
Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law |
1915-07-09 |
Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa |
1915-07-10 |
British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa |
1915-08-05 |
The Latin-American Conference Convenes in Washington, with representatives from leading South American nations joining the US to discuss conditions in Mexico |
1918-07-14 |
Dutch government reclaims South seas |
1919-01-07 |
The Industrial and Commercial Workers` Union of South Africa is founded, led by Clements Kadalie |
1919-05-06 |
Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa |
1919-08-28 |
General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa |
1920-02-04 |
1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (lasts 1½ months) |
1920-03-20 |
1st flight from London to South Africa lands (took 1½ months) |
1920-03-28 |
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states. |
1920-10-10 |
Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige) |
1920-10-23 |
African demonstrators shot in Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1920-12-07 |
NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81 |
1920-12-17 |
South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa |
1921-03-03 |
The Asiatic Inquiry Commission, est. by the South African Government, proposes a system of voluntary repatriation and segregation of Indians and prohibit Indians from buying agricultural land in a specified area along the coast |
1921-03-05 |
The Durban Land Alienation Ordinance passes, enabling the Durban City Council to exclude Indians from ownership or occupation of property in white areas, South Africa |
1921-06-20 |
At the Imperial Conference in London, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri, the Indian representative, puts forward a case for the granting of full citizenship rights to Indians in South Africa and other British colonies; the South African Prime Minister, General J.C. Smuts, opposes Sastris resolution, claiming that he cannot grant the franchise to Indians while withholding it from Blacks |
1921-06-30 |
The South African Reserve Bank is established. |
1921-07-30 |
The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) forms; the party changed its name to the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953, after it had been forced underground |
1921-11-21 |
The trial of the accused of the Bulhoek Massacre commences in South Africa |
1921-12-16 |
The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) calls for a united front in a pass burning campaign on Dingaan's Day |
1922-01-01 |
Coal miners in the Transvaal, South Africa, embark on a strike in response to a wage cut, which quickly escalated into a large-scale revolt against the government, known as the Rand Rebellion. |
1922-03-10 |
State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa |
1922-04-22 |
South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR |
1922-12-16 |
NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket |
1923-05-31 |
The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) forms in Durban, South Africa, with Omar Hajee Amod Jhaveri as President. |
1923-09-12 |
Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
1924-01-27 |
The Natal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Association jointly organise a mass meeting in Durban, South Africa in opposition to the Class Areas Bill |
1924-02-15 |
A deputation for the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets with the Minister of the Interior, Sir Patrick Duncan, and presents him with a memorandum setting out their objections concerning the Class Areas Bill |
1924-03-09 |
South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka) |
1924-04-01 |
Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
1924-04-08 |
South African State pass the Industrial Conciliation Act No 11: the act provided for job reservation, excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions,and prohibited registration of black trade unions |
1924-06-14 |
Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v South Africa |
1924-06-16 |
South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7 |
1924-06-28 |
Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's |
1924-06-30 |
England score 2-503 in day's play v South Africa at Lord's |
1924-10-28 |
M.de Bruin, a quarry man and miner, discovers an infant fossil skull in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Popularly known as the Taung child, Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species called Australopithecus africanus (The Southern Africa Ape). |
1925-05-05 |
Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa. |
1925-06-16 |
The Union Government rejects a round-table conference with India on the grounds that it will constitute interference in South African affairs |
1926-02-11 |
Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to NZ |
1926-07-18 |
The South Africa author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel |
1926-08-22 |
Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa |
1927-06-30 |
US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes |
1927-12-16 |
Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, NSW v South Australia |
1929-01-05 |
Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia |
1929-11-28 |
Adm Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight |
1929-11-29 |
Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong) |
1930-03-04 |
Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people. |
1930-05-19 |
White women win voting rights in South Africa |
1930-12-18 |
Bradman scores 258 NSW v South Aust, 289 mins, 37 fours |
1931-09-19 |
Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria |
1931-09-30 |
Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa. |
1931-11-17 |
Bradman scores 135 NSW v South Africa, 128 mins, 15 fours |
1931-11-28 |
Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, v South Africa |
1931-12-07 |
Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours |
1931-12-11 |
Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd |
1931-12-19 |
Bradman scores 112 Australia v South Africa at cricket SCG |
1932-01-04 |
Bradman scores 167 for Australia v South Africa at the MCG |
1932-01-29 |
Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide |
1932-01-30 |
Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval |
1932-02-01 |
Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th |
1932-02-02 |
Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83) |
1932-02-14 |
South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings v Aust (Ironmonger 5-6) |
1932-02-15 |
Aust beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time |
1932-05-28 |
Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas) |
1932-09-20 |
Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer |
1934-07-10 |
1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia |
1935-12-14 |
Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith v South Africa, Durban |
1935-12-18 |
Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia |
1936-01-04 |
Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 v South Africa |
1936-02-17 |
-58°F (-50°C), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record) |
1936-03-03 |
Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa |
1936-07-05 |
120°F (49°C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record) |
1937-12-20 |
Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia |
1937-12-21 |
O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW v South Aust |
1938-01-08 |
Bradman scores 107 for South Australia v Qld (1st innings) |
1938-01-18 |
Bradman scores 104* for South Australia v NSW at the SCG |
1938-06-08 |
Gert Terblanche, a local school boy, discovers fossils of an unknown 'robust-type' human ancestor, later named Paranthropus robustus by Robert Broom, at Kromdraai, Blaauwbank River Valley in South Africa |
1938-07-01 |
The South African Press Association (SAPA) is established as a non-governmental institution by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national and international |
1938-08-08 |
Great Trek Centenary Celebrations commence; the Great Trek was a migration involving Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South Africa |
1938-12-16 |
Bradman scores 143 South Aust v NSW, 11 fours 91 singles |
1938-12-23 |
Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa. |
1938-12-26 |
Bradman scores 225 South Aust v Qld before Christ gets him out |
1938-12-26 |
Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England v South Africa |
1938-12-28 |
Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa |
1939-03-14 |
England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day |
1939-07-09 |
A meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg South Africa, launch the Passive Resistance Campaign against apartheid and racial policy in South Africa |
1939-09-03 |
WWII: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada |
1939-09-06 |
South Africa declares war on Nazi-Germany |
1939-12-22 |
Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 v Queensland |
1939-12-23 |
South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland |
1940-02-13 |
Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Aust at the WACA |
1940-06-22 |
About 10,000 Afrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of South Africa's involvement in WWII |
1940-12-09 |
South Australia all out for 47 v NSW, O'Reilly 5-11 |
1941-10-25 |
Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia |
1942-02-09 |
Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes |
1942-02-15 |
Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra |
1942-05-16 |
1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma |
1942-10-16 |
Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India |
1942-12-12 |
German offensive in South Western Stalingrad |
1943-04-06 |
British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia |
1943-04-07 |
British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia |
1943-06-11 |
British invades Pantelleria (a tiny island south of Sicily) |
1943-09-04 |
British 8th Army lands at Taranto, South Italy |
1944-04-13 |
South Carolina rejects black suffrage |
1944-07-28 |
Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy |
1944-10-29 |
Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland |
1944-12-01 |
Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands |
1945-01-12 |
US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of South China Sea |
1945-03-24 |
US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa |
1945-07-14 |
Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan |
1945-09-09 |
Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies |
1946-06-22 |
Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop 'hooliganism' by Whites |
1946-06-23 |
In South Africa, a group of white men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters |
1946-11-12 |
Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released |
1946-11-19 |
Bradman scores 119 South Australia v Victoria, 183 mins, 8 fours |
1946-11-23 |
The Workers Party of South Korea is founded. |
1946-12-21 |
Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086 |
1947-01-10 |
Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard |
1947-03-20 |
180 tonne blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic |
1947-06-23 |
Compton & Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v South Africa |
1948-05-26 |
South Africa elects a nationalist government under D.F. Malan with an apartheid policy |
1948-07-17 |
Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea |
1948-07-20 |
Syngman Rhee elected President of South Korea |
1948-08-15 |
Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day) |
1948-09-01 |
Bradman scores 143 Aust v South of England, 17 fours 1 six |
1948-12-28 |
The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida. |
1949-01-14 |
Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die |
1949-01-27 |
Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China |
1949-03-09 |
England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes |
1949-04-07 |
"South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances |
1949-06-29 |
South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages |
1949-07-08 |
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of other race groups is passed in South Africa |
1950-04-09 |
4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party & South Pacific win |
1950-04-24 |
Independent republic of South Molukkas declared |
1950-04-27 |
South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races |
1950-05-01 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific) |
1950-05-02 |
Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China People's Republic |
1950-06-13 |
South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act" |
1950-06-25 |
Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea |
1950-06-27 |
US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam |
1950-06-27 |
North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict |
1950-06-27 |
South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea |
1950-06-28 |
North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War |
1950-06-30 |
US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops |
1950-07-01 |
1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea |
1950-07-17 |
Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka |
1950-07-17 |
Suppression of Communism Act comes into force in South Africa |
1950-09-15 |
During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea |
1950-09-15 |
UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south |
1950-09-26 |
UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul |
1950-10-01 |
South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea |
1950-10-03 |
Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas |
1950-10-26 |
South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary |
1950-11-18 |
South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions |
1950-12-28 |
Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea |
1951-05-31 |
Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord |
1951-06-18 |
In South Africa, the Suppression of Communism Act commences. |
1952-03-21 |
31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US |
1952-03-24 |
Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa |
1952-06-26 |
Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew |
1952-08-08 |
Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea |
1952-11-04 |
Earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America |
1952-12-14 |
Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die |
1952-12-21 |
WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953-03-11 |
American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb 15,000 feet on Mars Bluff, South Carolina; it created a crater 75 feet acrosss, but the nuclear core did not detonate, due to 6 safety catches |
1953-04-15 |
Malans National Party wins South African elections |
1953-06-09 |
South African premier Malan visits Netherlands |
1953-07-15 |
ANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe leave South Africa and go overseas under false names |
1953-08-08 |
US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact |
1954-01-16 |
"South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1928 performances |
1954-03-15 |
WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954-06-28 |
111°F (44°C) at Camden, South Carolina (state record) |
1954-07-12 |
ANC President Albert Luthuli banned by South African Minister of Justice from attending public gatherings and confined to the magisterial district of Lower Tugela, Natal |
1954-07-20 |
Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North & South |
1954-07-21 |
At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam |
1954-08-01 |
In South Africa, The Natives Resettlement Act empowers the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg; less than a year after the Act was passed Sophiatown residents were forcefully removed to Meadowlands in Soweto |
1954-10-24 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam |
1954-11-30 |
John Strydom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa |
1955-02-19 |
South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect |
1955-06-09 |
Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, v South Africa at Trent Bridge |
1955-06-26 |
Freedom Charter signed in South Africa |
1955-07-15 |
WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1955-11-09 |
UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics |
1956-04-25 |
Noel Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble" premieres in London |
1956-07-10 |
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, South Africa, a soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC |
1956-08-09 |
South African women demonstrate against pass laws |
1956-08-17 |
One of the largest demonstrations in South Africa's history, 20,000 women marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings to present petition against carrying of passes by women to the Prime Minister |
1956-10-31 |
Rear Adm GJ Dufek becomes 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole |
1957-05-22 |
South Africa government approves race separation in universities |
1957-12-23 |
Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout & Bobby Simpson v South Africa |
1958-01-03 |
Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland |
1958-01-03 |
Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick v South Africa at Cape Town |
1958-02-08 |
Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia |
1958-03-14 |
South Africa government prohibits the African National Congress |
1958-05-19 |
South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks |
1958-08-27 |
US performs nuclear test at South Atlantic Ocean |
1958-09-02 |
Hendrik Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa |
1958-10-01 |
Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia |
1959-06-16 |
In South Africa, Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the outskirts, is met with violent resistance. |
1959-08-12 |
Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa |
1959-11-17 |
De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond |
1960-01-01 |
A photograph of a 13 year-old South African boy in a torn vest appears in the front page of the London Labour paper, the Daily Herald. According to the Native Labour Regulation Act, it was an offence to employ a Native in a mine under the age of 18 years. |
1960-01-21 |
Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook, South Africa; 417 die of methane poisoning |
1960-03-21 |
Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC |
1960-04-09 |
South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle |
1960-04-24 |
Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed |
1960-04-27 |
South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns |
1960-05-04 |
1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland |
1960-06-06 |
South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill |
1960-06-24 |
Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's |
1960-06-25 |
South Africa beats New Zealand 13-0 in the first rugby test of the series in Johannesburg |
1960-08-08 |
South Kasai secedes from the Congo. |
1960-08-08 |
Charges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa are dropped |
1960-11-12 |
Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails |
1961-03-15 |
South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth |
1961-03-17 |
South Africa leaves British Commonwealth |
1961-04-13 |
UN General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid |
1961-05-04 |
South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested |
1961-05-31 |
Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth |
1961-06-27 |
Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa |
1961-06-29 |
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) calls for South Africa's withdrawal at the Geneva Conference in protest of the racial policies of the South African government |
1961-08-24 |
Former South African nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice |
1961-10-09 |
Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic) |
1961-10-18 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack |
1961-11-16 |
US President Kennedy decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops |
1961-11-18 |
JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam |
1961-12-08 |
South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock |
1961-12-11 |
JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam |
1962-02-27 |
South-Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed |
1962-03-09 |
US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight |
1962-06-15 |
South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes |
1962-06-27 |
In South Africa, the General Law Amendment Act (Sabotage Act) No 76 commences, increasing the state president's power to declare organisations unlawful and to add further restrictions to banning orders |
1962-08-04 |
Nelson Mandela captured by South African police |
1962-11-06 |
UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa |
1963-06-25 |
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested |
1963-06-25 |
Curnick Ndlovu, South African Trade Unionist and African National Congress Leader, is arrested |
1963-06-30 |
International Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting because of its apartheid policies |
1963-07-06 |
South African workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested |
1963-07-11 |
South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested |
1963-07-13 |
Indian government announces it will cut last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing facilities to South African aircraft |
1963-07-18 |
The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum |
1963-08-11 |
Four ANC political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in South Africa |
1963-10-20 |
South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy |
1963-12-07 |
Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans |
1963-12-17 |
Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea |
1964-01-30 |
Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam |
1964-06-12 |
Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa |
1964-06-23 |
Gen Maxwell Taylor appointed US ambassador in South Vietnam |
1964-06-24 |
In South Africa, the 90-Days Act commences, providing for any person to be detained, without trial, for 90 days; further, the person could be re-arrested under the same law for another 90 days |
1964-08-18 |
South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies |
1964-10-04 |
3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81 |
1964-10-30 |
Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam |
1964-11-17 |
British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa |
1965-01-06 |
Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling |
1965-01-26 |
South Vietnam milt coup under general Nguyen Khanh |
1965-04-01 |
South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years |
1965-05-05 |
1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam |
1965-05-16 |
Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam |
1965-06-12 |
South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Ky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier |
1965-06-15 |
South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products |
1965-07-03 |
Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act |
1965-12-01 |
South Africa government says children of white fathers are white |
1966-01-26 |
The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia. |
1966-03-17 |
South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund |
1966-05-01 |
Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting |
1966-05-13 |
US Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
1966-05-15 |
South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die |
1966-05-26 |
Buddhist sets himself on fire at US consulate in Hué, South Vietnam |
1966-06-22 |
South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government |
1966-07-16 |
Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936; the individuals are banned under various laws, most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts |
1966-08-03 |
South African government bans Beatle records |
1966-08-08 |
South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark) |
1966-08-15 |
Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission |
1966-09-13 |
Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa |
1966-10-01 |
West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9. |
1966-10-21 |
144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan, South Wales |
1966-10-27 |
UN deprives South Africa of Namibia |
1967-03-01 |
Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London |
1967-05-23 |
Government bans submarines near South Africa |
1967-08-08 |
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
1967-09-03 |
Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution |
1967-10-27 |
NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen |
1967-10-31 |
Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep |
1967-11-05 |
US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam |
1967-11-29 |
British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen |
1967-12-03 |
1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, South Africa) |
1968-03-01 |
Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting |
1968-03-15 |
Uprising in South Yemen |
1968-03-20 |
Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) |
1968-07-29 |
Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa |
1969-06-02 |
Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices US destroyer USS Frank E Evans in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam) |
1969-06-30 |
In South Africa, General Laws Amendment Bill is passed; the Bill contains far-reaching provisions and restrictions affecting the administration of justice and the disclosure of evidence |
1970-01-01 |
The University College of Zululand, formerly affiliated to the University of South Africa, attains full academic autonomy as the University of Zululand. |
1970-01-22 |
Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa v Australia, Cape Town |
1970-02-05 |
Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban |
1970-02-11 |
John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland |
1970-03-10 |
South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia |
1970-04-02 |
2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world |
1970-04-29 |
50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia |
1970-05-15 |
South-Africa excluded from Olympic play |
1970-05-27 |
British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I |
1970-08-13 |
Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leaflets explode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1970-08-19 |
The Chinese Community in South Africa is granted 'White' status |
1970-11-16 |
South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky defends operations in Cambodia because communist forces could overrun South Vietnam "within 24 hours" if troops operating there were withdrawn |
1970-12-01 |
Independent People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself as People's Democratic Republic of Yemen |
1971-02-08 |
South Vietnamese troops invade Laos |
1971-02-13 |
12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos |
1971-03-03 |
South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles |
1971-03-03 |
Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa |
1971-03-14 |
South Vietnamese troops flee Laos |
1971-03-31 |
South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion |
1971-06-08 |
North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam |
1971-06-21 |
Intl Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia |
1971-06-22 |
a Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit to leave South Africa for his studies in the United States. |
1972-01-01 |
Policewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time. |
1972-01-17 |
Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd |
1972-03-30 |
North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam |
1972-05-04 |
Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam |
1972-05-10 |
Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77 |
1972-06-01 |
Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa |
1972-06-24 |
Danie Malan, South African athlete, sets a new world record in the 1000m event in Munich |
1972-07-03 |
Themba Sono is forced to resign as president of South African Student Organisation (SASO) |
1972-07-12 |
Twelve years after the banning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress, a new political movement, the Black People Convention is formed after a three day long conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
1972-09-30 |
Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa) |
1972-11-11 |
US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army |
1973-01-22 |
US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord |
1973-02-27 |
American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota |
1973-03-30 |
Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam |
1973-11-23 |
Arab summit conference adopts open and secret resolutions on the use of the oil weapons; embargo extended to Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa |
1974-01-01 |
With effect from this date the New Zealand government terminates all tariff preferences previously granted to South Africa. |
1974-04-03 |
The Super Outbreak : tornadoes in the east, south & midwest United States killed approximately 315 people, with nearly 5,500 injured |
1974-06-01 |
Arab oil ministers decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and Rhodesia |
1974-07-07 |
New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa |
1974-08-15 |
South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination |
1974-11-02 |
78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started. |
1974-11-07 |
63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o) |
1974-11-12 |
South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies |
1975-03-12 |
Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam |
1975-04-21 |
Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years |
1975-04-28 |
South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30 |
1975-05-19 |
Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India |
1975-06-06 |
Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established |
1975-06-26 |
Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. |
1975-06-28 |
The South African rugby team beats France 33-18 in Pretoria |
1975-07-27 |
The British government closes its consulate in Angola following increasing fighting between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and South African troops |
1975-08-11 |
US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN |
1975-08-20 |
Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126 |
1975-10-23 |
Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola |
1975-11-22 |
Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North Ireland |
1975-12-02 |
7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed |
1975-12-04 |
6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead |
1976-01-05 |
Kingsmill massacre: in retaliation for the Reavey and O'Dowd killings, the South Armagh Republican Action Force shoot dead 10 Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill, County Armagh |
1976-03-12 |
South African troops leave Angola |
1976-06-11 |
Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa |
1976-06-16 |
Students in Soweto, South Africa, march against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. |
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 |
1976-06-25 |
The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting |
1976-06-27 |
In South Africa, the National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness |
1976-07-02 |
Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam |
1976-08-11 |
Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die |
1976-08-13 |
South Africa pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia |
1976-09-23 |
South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them |
1976-10-26 |
Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa |
1976-11-09 |
UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa |
1976-12-28 |
Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa |
1977-04-27 |
Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa |
1977-06-10 |
International Labour Organisation and United Nations meet to discuss apartheid in South Africa and potential actions to prevent further violence and state repression. |
1977-06-23 |
Violence erupts in Soweto, South Africa, again and the police make at least 146 arrests |
1977-06-28 |
The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, is formally disbanded by the majority faction after members leave the party to join other new political parties |
1977-06-29 |
South Africa opposition party, the New Republic Party (NRP), is formed after the integration of the United Party (UP) and Democratic Party (DP) |
1977-07-26 |
The 'Committee of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, South Africa |
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 |
1977-09-14 |
Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa |
1977-10-21 |
US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa |
1977-11-04 |
UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa |
1977-12-06 |
South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence |
1977-12-31 |
Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa |
1978-01-01 |
Newspaper editor Donald Woods arrives in London after fleeing South Africa's apartheid regime |
1978-03-15 |
-21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon |
1978-04-15 |
43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy |
1978-05-06 |
South Africa military goes into Angola |
1978-07-24 |
Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe |
1978-09-28 |
Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa |
1978-10-21 |
Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. |
1978-10-31 |
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution |
1979-02-24 |
War between North & South Yemen begins |
1979-04-18 |
Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent |
1979-06-04 |
South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal |
1979-09-13 |
South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr) |
1979-10-26 |
Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May. |
1980-05-02 |
Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa |
1980-05-18 |
Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms. |
1980-05-27 |
South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed |
1980-05-27 |
The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more. |
1980-06-01 |
ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa |
1980-06-13 |
UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela |
1980-06-18 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa |
1980-06-23 |
South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails; the Council was part of Botha's plan to effect broad ranging constitutional changes which would allow for a role for both Indian and Coloured people in parliament but which still excluded direct political representation for African people. |
1980-06-28 |
The South African Springbok rugby team lead by Morné du Plessis beats the British Lions 12-10 in Port Elizabeth to lead 3-0 in the series |
1980-08-22 |
Leaders of Port Elizabeth's Black secondary school children in South Africa decided to end a four month boycott of classes |
1980-08-27 |
Chon Doo Hwan elected president of South Korea |
1980-09-17 |
South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death |
1980-10-22 |
New South Korean constitution comes into effect |
1980-12-01 |
46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB) |
1981-06-19 |
Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa |
1981-06-30 |
Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained |
1981-07-17 |
Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another |
1981-07-25 |
Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand, force the cancellation of a rugby test between New Zealand's All Blacks and South Africa's Springboks by invading the pitch during the game. |
1981-07-29 |
Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police who use batons to stop them marching to South Africa's Consul, New Zealand. |
1981-08-08 |
At a summit South African Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws |
1981-08-29 |
Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League)) |
1981-09-30 |
Seoul, South Korea, is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics |
1981-11-25 |
Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles |
1981-11-30 |
South Africa anti-apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested |
1981-12-04 |
According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa |
1981-12-10 |
The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia. |
1982-03-19 |
Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the U.K.. |
1982-03-20 |
Rev A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa |
1982-06-04 |
Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon |
1982-06-23 |
-117°F; All time low at South Pole |
1982-06-25 |
South African President P.W. Botha issues a new Proclamation again placing Ingwavuma under government control |
1982-07-02 |
In South Africa, the Internal Security Act is passed, giving massive powers to the authorities to investigate any organization or publication |
1982-08-06 |
Three ANC members are sentenced to death in South Africa |
1982-08-11 |
The South African Defence Force (SADF) raids Southern Angola |
1982-08-17 |
South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin |
1983-02-16 |
The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people in Australia's worst ever fires. |
1983-04-03 |
2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South Cal beats LA Tech 69-67 |
1983-07-13 |
The Transvaal Attorney General announces that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three associates will face terrorism charges, South Africa |
1983-08-03 |
John Sain of South Bend, Ind, builds 3.91 m house of cards |
1983-08-06 |
Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa |
1983-08-06 |
Bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of ANC, explodes at a synagogue in Johannesburg, 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 |
1983-09-27 |
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years |
1983-10-09 |
4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma |
1984-02-27 |
Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa |
1984-03-16 |
South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty |
1984-05-12 |
South African prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years |
1984-06-08 |
Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia. |
1984-06-28 |
Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year old daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola |
1984-07-12 |
A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people |
1984-07-13 |
The last sitting of an all-white Parliament in South Africa |
1984-08-22 |
The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament |
1984-09-03 |
South Africa adopts constitution |
1984-09-26 |
President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa |
1984-12-02 |
Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG |
1984-12-10 |
South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize |
1985-01-21 |
-19°F (-28°C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record) |
1985-01-31 |
South African president PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence |
1985-02-08 |
Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea |
1985-03-21 |
Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed |
1985-04-30 |
Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa |
1985-05-18 |
1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa) |
1985-07-09 |
South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong |
1985-08-07 |
A delegation of the South African Council of Churches meets with SA President P W Botha, following calls by the church for urgent discussions on the causes of unrest, forced removals and the emergency regulations in the country |
1985-08-13 |
South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrest 200 students during a clampdown on school boycotts |
1985-08-14 |
Political violence by the youth begins after the funeral of assassinated Victoria Mxenge, a civil rights lawyer, who was respected and liked by the Congress of South African Students |
1985-08-15 |
PW Botha gives the "Rubicon" Speech in Durban, South Africa, dissapointing many by refusing to consider immediate and major reforms in the country's apartheid system |
1985-08-19 |
Following the Rubicon speech four days earlier, Archbishop Desmond Tutu snubs P. W. Botha's invitation to attend a meeting to discuss the role and actions of the police and security forces in South Africa |
1985-08-20 |
Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle |
1985-08-23 |
South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested |
1985-09-09 |
President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa |
1985-10-03 |
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution |
1985-10-11 |
President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands |
1985-12-01 |
South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms |
1986-01-01 |
South African Government closes its borders with Lesotho, cutting off important food and fuel supplies, after Lesotho refuses to sign a non-aggression pact. |
1986-01-13 |
South Yemen Pres Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents |
1986-01-24 |
South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president |
1986-02-09 |
Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen |
1986-03-07 |
South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends |
1986-05-16 |
South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela |
1986-05-18 |
South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia |
1986-05-23 |
US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa |
1986-06-10 |
In South Africa, the three-year-old 'State of Emergency' is renewed for another twelve months, followed by an organized campaign of civil disobedience against it. |
1986-06-12 |
P W Botha declares South African national emergency |
1986-06-13 |
Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency |
1986-06-16 |
1 day general strike in South Africa |
1986-06-18 |
US House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa |
1986-06-26 |
South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested |
1986-06-27 |
South African Journalist and founder of the 'New Nation' newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988 |
1986-06-28 |
West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against South Africa |
1986-06-29 |
Moses Mayekiso, who was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and became a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), is detained for a second time and spends several months in solitary cofinement |
1986-07-13 |
Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa |
1986-08-27 |
Protest erupt in Soweto, South Africa, demonstrating against evictions which had been carried out after an eleven week rent boycott |
1986-09-16 |
Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed |
1986-10-21 |
IBM re-forms in South Africa |
1986-10-25 |
International Red Cross ousted from South Africa |
1986-12-11 |
South Africa censors press |
1986-12-12 |
South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested |
1987-06-22 |
The International Labour Organisation, meeting for its annual conference in Geneva, calls for international sanctions against South African minerals |
1987-06-27 |
In South Africa, the Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed |
1987-07-09 |
1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime |
1987-07-12 |
50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar |
1987-07-30 |
An ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command in Johannesburg South Africa kills 1 person and injures 68 |
1987-08-09 |
The National Union of Mineworkers begin South Africa's longest wage strike |
1987-08-31 |
South Africa longest mine strike in history ends |
1987-09-07 |
South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young |
1987-10-16 |
Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people. |
1987-10-27 |
South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution |
1987-11-05 |
South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed |
1987-11-28 |
South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die |
1987-12-16 |
Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea |
1988-02-24 |
South African apartheid regime bans the UDF |
1988-02-25 |
South Korea adopts constitution |
1988-07-02 |
Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonate a car bomb by remote control outside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa |
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 |
1988-07-28 |
Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa, destroyed by arson |
1988-07-29 |
South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom" |
1988-08-07 |
Angola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty |
1988-08-08 |
Angola, Cuba & South Africa sign cease fire treaty |
1988-08-08 |
South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola |
1988-08-31 |
Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches |
1988-09-22 |
South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in |
1988-10-19 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize |
1988-12-22 |
South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa |
1989-01-17 |
Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis) |
1989-01-25 |
Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission |
1989-02-02 |
FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader |
1989-05-17 |
Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa |
1989-06-07 |
23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires |
1989-06-29 |
The National Party adopts a five year programme of its objectives which included a political "reform" plan to give South Africa's Black majority a role in national as well as local government spheres; the African National Congress (ANC) said that it would consider nothing less than a one-man, one-vote system |
1989-07-05 |
South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela |
1989-07-16 |
South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid |
1989-08-06 |
Twenty former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction orders, launch a campaign against apartheid laws |
1989-08-14 |
President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns |
1989-08-15 |
Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa |
1989-09-13 |
Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa |
1989-09-20 |
FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa |
1989-10-15 |
South Africa President FW de Klerk frees ANC Founder Walter Sisulu & 4 other political prisoners |
1989-11-16 |
South Africa president FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act |
1989-12-16 |
Geoff Marsh completes 355* for WA against South Australia |
1989-12-22 |
-18°F in Denver, -23°F in KC Mo, -42°F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47°F in Hardin Mont & -60°F in Black Hills South Dakota |
1990-01-18 |
South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress |
1990-01-26 |
Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic |
1990-02-02 |
South Africa's Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other political orgs |
1990-02-07 |
Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24 |
1990-02-10 |
South African President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on Feb 11th |
1990-02-11 |
Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa |
1990-02-13 |
50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa |
1990-03-21 |
Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president |
1990-05-02 |
South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid |
1990-05-06 |
Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party |
1990-05-22 |
North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen |
1990-06-05 |
South African troops plunder Nelson Mandela's home |
1990-06-07 |
South Africa president F W de Klerk lifts 4 year olf state of emergency |
1990-06-22 |
Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has happened in South Africa, calls for a revision of the position that the Organisation has taken in its struggle against apartheid; he adds that a democratic, non-racial SA is within reach |
1990-07-12 |
In Soweto, South Africa, Shanty town women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes |
1990-07-16 |
The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa |
1990-07-23 |
South Africa workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested |
1990-07-29 |
South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference |
1990-08-15 |
At least 150 people die in clashes between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa |
1990-08-16 |
South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto |
1990-09-13 |
Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die |
1990-09-20 |
South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia. |
1990-09-24 |
South African President F W de Klerk meets US President Bush in Washington DC |
1990-10-11 |
Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum |
1990-12-13 |
South African President De Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid |
1991-01-13 |
42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg, South Africa |
1991-01-13 |
Soccer stadium riot in Orkney, South Africa, at least 40 die |
1991-01-20 |
Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south. |
1991-02-12 |
North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition |
1991-05-13 |
South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks |
1991-05-22 |
Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea |
1991-06-10 |
South Florida & Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises |
1991-06-17 |
South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws |
1991-06-23 |
A peace summit, brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by the Conservative Party, is held to end the violence in South Africa |
1991-06-25 |
Japan lifts its call for voluntary restraint on expanding trade with South Africa |
1991-06-25 |
Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto, South Africa |
1991-06-28 |
South Africa signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
1991-06-30 |
South Africa Government repeal the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act) |
1991-07-09 |
South Africa readmitted to Olympics |
1991-07-10 |
Foreign Minister R.F. Botha of South Africa signs accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on behalf of South Africa |
1991-08-04 |
The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa. |
1991-09-07 |
1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics |
1991-09-17 |
UN admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North & South Korea, Marshall Islands & Micronesia |
1991-09-29 |
29th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 14½-13½ at Ocean Course (South Carolina, US) |
1991-11-10 |
South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day v India |
1992-01-11 |
Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa |
1992-03-22 |
England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final |
1992-04-18 |
Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown) |
1992-06-17 |
Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42 |
1992-06-19 |
Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South-Africa |
1992-06-30 |
South African ANC President Nelson Mandela meets with UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar |
1992-07-03 |
Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa has its FIFA membership reinstated |
1992-07-07 |
South Africa's national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win South Africa's first ever FIFA sanctioned match |
1992-07-13 |
The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress, South African Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Union, outlines a mass action plan for August |
1992-07-15 |
The Security Council of the UN examine violence in South Africa |
1992-08-23 |
Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress |
1992-08-24 |
Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die |
1992-08-24 |
Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea. |
1992-09-22 |
Heavy storm in South France, 34 die |
1992-09-23 |
Mud storm kills 30 in South France |
1992-11-17 |
Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole |
1993-03-21 |
South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl |
1993-03-30 |
New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield |
1993-04-19 |
Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40 |
1993-04-19 |
South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed lands in Iowa. |
1993-05-07 |
South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections |
1993-05-13 |
Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50 |
1993-07-25 |
Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon |
1993-07-26 |
Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed |
1993-08-10 |
An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand. |
1993-08-16 |
South Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay |
1993-09-02 |
Day of Peace in South Africa |
1993-10-08 |
UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa |
1993-10-10 |
Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed |
1993-10-15 |
Nelson Mandela & South Africa president F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1993-11-17 |
Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed |
1993-11-18 |
Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution |
1994-01-02 |
Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57 |
1994-01-03 |
Restoration of South African citizenship, announced on 15 December 1993 by the South African parliament led by President F.W. de Klerk, becomes effective four months before the first South Africa non-racial polls of 27 April, 1994 |
1994-01-07 |
South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs |
1994-01-25 |
Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup |
1994-02-11 |
Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA |
1994-03-05 |
Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa) |
1994-03-07 |
ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa |
1994-03-18 |
South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police |
1994-03-20 |
Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa |
1994-03-22 |
South African government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland |
1994-04-19 |
Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election |
1994-04-26 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote |
1994-04-28 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days] |
1994-05-05 |
North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen |
1994-05-06 |
Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa's first post apartheid election |
1994-05-10 |
Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president |
1994-05-11 |
6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa |
1994-05-21 |
South Yemen secedes from Yemen |
1994-06-23 |
South Africa reclaims its seat in UN |
1994-06-23 |
South Africa is readmitted to the United Nations Organisations (UNO) |
1994-08-15 |
South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning |
1994-08-20 |
Vuyani Bungu, the South African junior feartherweight, wins IBF World Boxing Title |
1994-09-13 |
Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun |
1994-10-01 |
South African President Nelson Mandela visits US |
1994-10-06 |
Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa |
1994-11-03 |
Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s) |
1995-01-02 |
Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21 |
1995-01-14 |
10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo |
1995-02-04 |
Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia |
1995-03-12 |
Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35) |
1995-04-28 |
Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die |
1995-05-10 |
In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident |
1995-06-24 |
South Africa's Springboks beat New Zealand's All Blacks 15-12 to win the Rugby Wold Cup in Johannesburg |
1995-07-09 |
Former South Africa President F. W. de Klerk is implicated of knowing and condoning a 'dirty tricks' campaign that was waged against the ANC between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation |
1995-07-22 |
Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her two children in South Carolina |
1995-08-09 |
South Africa celebrates the first National Women's Day |
1995-10-16 |
Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe |
1995-12-03 |
Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket v South Africa, a record |
1995-12-03 |
Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864 |
1996-02-16 |
Gary Kirsten scores 188* for South Africa v UAE at Rawalpindi |
1996-04-03 |
South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield |
1996-04-19 |
South Africa defeat Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah |
1996-05-08 |
South Africa's Constitutional Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution |
1996-06-23 |
Archbishop Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in South Africa |
1996-07-07 |
Nelson Mandela steps down as President of South Africa |
1996-08-19 |
The major South African political parties begin their submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) |
1996-12-26 |
Start of the largest strike in South Korean history. |
1997-02-24 |
South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp |
1997-05-12 |
14 North Koreans defect to South Korea |
1997-07-30 |
Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia. |
1997-08-13 |
South Park's first episode is aired. |
1997-08-16 |
The South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana wins against the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at First National Bank stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa |
1998-07-14 |
Violence erupts in Richmond, South Africa, reflecting underlying political tensions between supporters of the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party |
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 |
1998-08-14 |
Winnie Mandela sued by the South Africa government |
1998-08-19 |
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairperson, Archbishop D. Tutu, releases documents revealing an alleged plot by Western countries to assassinate United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden |
1998-08-21 |
P.W. Botha found guilty of contempt for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. |
1998-10-29 |
Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. |
1999-06-16 |
Thabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa |
1999-06-22 |
Former Mpumalanga premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu causes a storm within political circles with his now infamous statement, "It is acceptable for politicians to lie", South Africa |
1999-06-25 |
In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime; the nation's murder rate is the third highest in the world and more than 49,000 cases of rape were reported in 1998 |
2000-06-13 |
President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang. |
2000-06-23 |
The bulk ore carrier MV Treasure sinks off the western coast of South Africa, soiling more than 19 000 penguins; this resulted in the world's largest ever rescue of birds from an oiling event |
2000-07-09 |
Police fired tear gas at fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a stampede that killed twelve people in Harare, Zimbabwe |
2000-08-09 |
South African President Thabo Mbeki unveils the Women's Monument commemorating the role of women in the anti-apartheid struggle |
2002-04-15 |
An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128. |
2002-06-28 |
In South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Treatment Action Campaign table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council |
2002-06-29 |
Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel. |
2002-06-30 |
Brazil beats Germany 2-0 for soccer's 17th World Cup in South Korea & Japan |
2002-07-09 |
The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa. |
2002-07-20 |
South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five. |
2002-08-26 |
Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
2003-01-31 |
The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. |
2003-02-18 |
Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea. |
2003-08-16 |
U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress. |
2003-08-28 |
An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt. |
2004-03-12 |
Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history. |
2004-05-14 |
The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun. |
2004-07-17 |
Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against Aids |
2004-09-30 |
The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo. |
2004-12-08 |
The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations. |
2005-07-02 |
South African tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men's double title |
2005-07-28 |
A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people. |
2005-10-08 |
The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC. |
2006-03-06 |
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state. |
2006-11-12 |
The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia. |
2006-12-04 |
An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo. |
2007-03-24 |
The Australian Labor Party is reinstated after the New South Wales state elections. |
2007-05-17 |
Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953. |
2007-06-08 |
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker. |
2007-06-24 |
The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours. |
2007-10-02 |
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. |
2007-11-13 |
An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing four people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six. |
2007-11-23 |
MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. |
2007-11-29 |
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as south as Trinidad. |
2007-12-07 |
The Hebei Spirit oil spill began in South Korea after a crane barge being towed by tug collided with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit. |
2008-02-10 |
The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea. |
2008-08-07 |
Georgia launches a military offensive to surround and capture the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, from Russian control, starting the South Ossetia War. |
2008-08-08 |
Georgian invasion into South Ossetia. Begin of five-day war between Georgia and Russia. |
2008-08-15 |
Lee Berger and his nine-year-old son, Matthew, discover the two-million-year-old fossils of a new species of human ancestor (Australopithecus sediba) at Malapa Cave, South Africa |
2008-08-26 |
Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia. |
2008-09-21 |
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa resigns from office, effective September 25. |
2009-01-13 |
Global shipping experiences a drop in trade, as exports from South Korea dropping an annualised 30%, with Taiwan and Japan experiencing a 42% and 27% drop respectively |
2009-05-27 |
South Africa enters the global recession; the first recession for South Africa in 17 years |
2009-06-05 |
Chileo officially enters recession; it is the first South American country to enter the global recession |
2009-07-18 |
Five members of one family are found murdered at Epping, New South Wales. |
2010-07-02 |
Oil tanker truck explosion in South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, kills at least 230 people |
2010-07-02 |
Ghana's Black Stars, the only African team standing in the Quarter Finals of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, are defeated by Uruguay |
2010-07-11 |
Spain beats Netherlands 1-0 for soccer's 19th World Cup in South Africa (1st title) |
2010-09-04 |
Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages. |
2010-11-23 |
The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines. |
2011-07-09 |
South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan. |
2011-08-23 |
5.8 earthquake occurrs in Mineral, Virginia felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia |
2012-02-04 |
Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland |
2012-02-20 |
South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders |
2012-03-12 |
100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan |
2012-03-22 |
Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester, New South Wales |
2012-04-11 |
South Korean legislative elections result in the governing Saenuri Party retaining governance |
2012-07-05 |
South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales |
2012-07-13 |
19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa |
2012-08-04 |
South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics |
2012-08-16 |
South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people |
2012-08-20 |
South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England |
2012-08-24 |
Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court |
2012-09-07 |
US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia |
2012-09-07 |
64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China |
2012-09-10 |
10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa |
2012-10-05 |
Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa |
2012-12-05 |
8 people are killed and 12 injured by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in South Korea |
2012-12-19 |
Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation's first female president |
2013-01-06 |
10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan |
2013-01-30 |
South Korea successfully launches its rocket Naro-1 which was carrying a scientific satellite |
2013-01-31 |
300 people are injured in a train collision in Pretoria, South Africa |
2013-02-14 |
Oscar Pistorius, a South African amputee sprint runner, is charged with the murder of Reeva Steenkamp |
2013-03-08 |
North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea |
2013-03-11 |
North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice |
2013-03-15 |
24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa |
2013-03-16 |
Kim Yu-Na of South Korea wins the women's 2013 World Figure Skating Championships |
2013-03-30 |
North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea |
2013-04-17 |
North Korea blocks a South Korean supply delegation from the Kaesong joint industrial zone |
2014-01-20 |
Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked |
2014-05-10 |
The African National Congress wins the 2014 South African General Election |
2014-06-03 |
Hashim Amla becomes the first non-white captain of the South African national cricket team |
2014-09-11 |
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide) |
2014-10-05 |
South Sydney Rabbitohs win the 2014 NRL Grand Final |
2014-11-11 |
The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison |
2015-10-26 |
Outrage after South Carolina officer arrests student |
2015-11-04 |
South Sudan plane crash kills 15; baby among 3 survivors |
2015-12-20 |
Dozens missing after landslide in south China |
2015-12-27 |
Floods displace more than 150000 in South America |
2015-12-28 |
South Korea and Japan reach deal on 'comfort women' |
2016-01-30 |
US Navy sends ship near disputed island in South China Sea |
2016-02-03 |
South Korea Warns North Korea Not to Launch Satellite |
2016-02-10 |
North Korea's Rocket Launch Frays Ties Between South Korea and China |
2016-03-03 |
North Korea fires several short-range projectiles into sea - South Korea |
2016-03-07 |
South Korea, US begin exercises as North Korea threatens attack |
2016-03-08 |
South Korea announces unilateral sanctions on North Korea |
2016-03-10 |
South Korea considers approval of North Korea tuberculosis aid despite sanctions |
2016-03-12 |
North Korea Warns of Pre-emptive Strikes Against the South |
2016-03-12 |
North Korea submarine 'missing' as US-South Korea drills continue |
2016-03-18 |
North Korea Fires Missile Into Sea, South Korea Says |
2016-04-01 |
North Korea Jamming GPS Signals Across Border, South Korea Says |
2016-04-01 |
Xi says China will defend its South China Sea sovereignty |
2016-04-11 |
N Korea senior intelligence officer 'defects to South' |
2016-04-13 |
North Korea Threatens South Korea Over 13 Defectors |
2016-04-18 |
South Korea Says North Is Preparing for 5th Nuclear Test |
2016-04-29 |
Russia, China in Agreement on North Korea, South China Sea |
2016-05-05 |
China and Russia to hold anti-missile drill after US, South Korea talk defense |
2016-05-10 |
Large tornado hits south of Oklahoma City, two dead |
2016-05-31 |
South Korea Says North Korea Missile Launch Likely Failed |
2016-06-05 |
In pushback to US, China says 'has no fear of trouble' in South China Sea |
2016-06-05 |
Kerry warns Beijing over air defense zone for South China Sea |
2016-06-06 |
Taiwan says won't recognize Chinese air defense zone over South China Sea |
2016-07-14 |
Obama Sends 47 US Troops to South Sudan Amid Heavy Fighting |
2016-07-14 |
US sends 47 troops to South Sudan to protect Americans |
2016-07-19 |
China Begins Air Patrols Over Disputed Area of the South China Sea |
2016-08-03 |
North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Into Sea, South Korea Says |
2016-08-24 |
North Korea Seeks UN Meeting on US-South Korea Exercises |
2016-08-24 |
Japan, China, South Korea agree to urge North Korea to stop provocation |
2016-08-31 |
South Korea Says Top North Korean Official Executed |
2016-09-12 |
N Korea ready for another nuclear test, says South |
2016-09-13 |
US flexes muscle at North Korea, flying bombers over South Korea: reports |
2016-09-21 |
US Flies Bombers Over South Korea Again in Show of Force |
2016-10-10 |
3 deaths in South Carolina blamed on Hurricane Matthew |
2016-11-29 |
South Korea's Park asks parliament to find way for her to step down |
2016-12-01 |
Tornadoes and storms kill five in US South |
2016-12-27 |
South Korean Ruling Party Splits Over Impeached President |
2017-01-16 |
South Korea Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of Samsung Group Leader in Bribery Case |
2017-01-23 |
Deadly storms kill 16, trigger tornado threat across US South |
2017-01-24 |
China urges US to act and speak cautiously on South China Sea |
2017-03-02 |
US, South Korea agree to strengthen cooperation on North Korea sanctions |
2017-03-10 |
South Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye |
2017-03-27 |
South Korean Prosecutors Are Seeking to Arrest Park Geun-hye |
2017-03-31 |
Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrested |
2017-04-04 |
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's drops South Africa to junk |
2017-04-16 |
North Korean missile test fails, US and South Korea say |
2017-04-26 |
US moves THAAD anti-missile to South Korean site, sparking protests |
2017-04-27 |
South Korea, US warn of punishment for North Korea; US stresses sanctions |
2017-05-03 |
Anger grows in South Korea over US anti-missile system |
2017-07-07 |
Japan, South Korea, US demand greater Chinese effort on N.Korea |
2017-07-29 |
South Korea to deploy more THAAD units after North Korea ICBM launch |
2017-08-07 |
South Korea, US agree to pressure North Korea, China hopes for North-South talks |
2017-09-07 |
South Korea deploys anti-missile system as US seeks tough North Korea sanctions |
2017-12-04 |
South Korea, US kick off largest air exercise amid North Korean warnings |
2017-12-06 |
US flies B-1B over South in show of force against N. Korea |
2017-12-21 |
South Korea fires warning shots after North soldier defects |
2017-12-29 |
South Korea seizes HK-flagged vessel it says transferred oil to North Korea |
2018-01-02 |
South Korea offers talks with defiant North ahead of Olympics |
2018-01-03 |
North Korean leader orders border hotline with South Korea reopened on Wednesday |
2018-01-05 |
North Korea accepts January 9 talks offer from South Korea |
2018-01-09 |
North, South Korea to hold talks as Winter Olympics help break ice |
2018-01-09 |
North Korea will send Olympic team to South as countries hold high-level talks |
2018-02-10 |
North Korea's Kim invites South Korean president for summit: South Korea |
2018-02-15 |
South African President Zuma succumbs to pressure, resigns |
2018-02-23 |
South Korea says approved visit by sanctioned North Korean to pursue peace on peninsula |
2018-02-26 |
South Korea says it hopes for constructive talks between US, North Korea |
2018-03-04 |
South Korea to send high-level officials to North for talks |
2018-03-09 |
China, Japan, South Korea bristle over US steel, aluminum tariffs |
2018-03-20 |
US, South Korea announce annual military exercises to begin on April 1 |
2018-04-02 |
China space lab mostly burns up on re-entry in south Pacific |
2018-04-27 |
North Korea's Kim Jong Un crosses DMZ line for historic meeting with South Korea |
2018-05-02 |
South Korea says it wants US troops to stay regardless of any treaty with North Korea |
2018-06-14 |
US, South Korea, Japan vow to work on North Korean denuclearisation |
2018-06-18 |
5 dead as SUV being chased crashes in South Texas |
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South - Notable Birthdays
South - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1322-08-01 |
Peter van Herentals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian |
1485-04-03 |
Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherland poet |
1527-04-04 |
Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer |
1573-10-11 |
Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer |
1624-01-30 |
Arnold Geulincx, South Netherland, philosopher (About Virtue) |
1654-01-20 |
Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet |
1670-12-07 |
John Aislabie, English director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742) |
1677-08-09 |
Jacob Campo Weyerman, South Neth's adventurer/painter/writer |
1679-11-13 |
Thomas-Philippe d'alsace et de Boussu, South Netherland cardinal |
1716-12-24 |
Patrice F earl De Neney, South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council |
1734-03-01 |
Pieter Valck[x], South Netherland sculptor |
1738-10-11 |
Arthur Phillip, admiral/1st governor New-South Wales |
1758-11-07 |
Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician |
1760-11-08 |
Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Neth earl/general |
1761-02-01 |
Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836) |
1762-10-16 |
Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (d. 1816) |
1767-12-22 |
Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, rebellion leader (fought Napoleon's France) |
1771-04-13 |
Adam FJA van der Duyn, Dutch governor (South Holland) |
1774-06-02 |
William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850) |
1778-08-20 |
Bernardo O'Higgins, Chillán, Chile, South American independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule (1817-1823 Supreme Director of Chile) |
1782-03-18 |
John C. Calhoun, Abbeville South Carolina, Andrew Jackson's VP (1825-32) |
1795-02-03 |
Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830) |
1795-02-18 |
George Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist |
1797-07-10 |
Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull) |
1813-07-26 |
Isaac Baumann, Kassel Hesse, Germany, a Jewish pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, South Africa |
1817-01-08 |
Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893) |
1818-03-22 |
John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846) |
1819-09-17 |
Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa) |
1822-09-16 |
Charles S Crocker, Pres of Central & South Pacific Railroad |
1824-06-29 |
Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT Stempels) |
1824-12-19 |
Hercules Robinson, Ireland, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89, 1895-97) |
1825-10-10 |
Paulus Kruger, Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader |
1826-06-24 |
George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898) |
1831-01-20 |
Pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa) |
1838-02-16 |
Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist |
1839-04-18 |
Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds) |
1841-11-20 |
Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the New South Wales Lancers |
1847-04-01 |
Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America) |
1847-10-09 |
Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond) |
1847-10-22 |
Jacobus Herculas [Uncle Koos] de la Rey, South African politician |
1848-12-09 |
Joel Chandler Harris, Song of the South |
1853-02-09 |
Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony |
1853-07-05 |
Cecil John Rhodes, South Africa, politician/diamond merchant |
1854-07-12 |
George Eastman, Cannibals of the South Seas |
1854-10-07 |
Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War |
1855-03-24 |
Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman) |
1856-07-15 |
Owen Dunell, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test captain) |
1857-08-08 |
Cécile Chaminade, Goin' South |
1858-10-12 |
Alice Charbonnet Kellerman, Venus of the South Seas |
1859-01-15 |
Archibald Peake, Premier of South Australia (d. 1920) |
1859-05-01 |
Willem J Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat |
1861-01-12 |
James Mark Baldwin, Columbia South Carolina, American Philosopher and Psychologist |
1862-02-10 |
W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer (7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889) |
1862-09-27 |
Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st PM of South Africa (1910-19) |
1865-08-04 |
Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890) |
1865-08-20 |
Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1911) |
1865-10-19 |
Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1892, 18 & 3) |
1865-11-01 |
Monty Bowden, cricketer (England Test capt v South Africa at 23) |
1866-04-03 |
J. B. M. Hertzog [Barry Hertzog], Cape Colony, South African General/Premier (1914-39) |
1868-04-05 |
J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer (one Test South Africa 1892) |
1868-06-06 |
Robert Falcon Scott, Plymouth, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition |
1869-06-16 |
Frederick O'Brien, White Shadows in the South Seas |
1869-07-10 |
Henry Fragson, South Solitary |
1870-02-03 |
Beatrice Grimshaw, Black Cargoes of the South Seas |
1870-03-21 |
Herbert G. Ponting, 90° South |
1870-05-24 |
Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa and proponent of Commonwealth & League of Nations (d. 1950) |
1870-06-24 |
Horatio Mbelle, Cape Colony, South African interpreter, community leader and politician |
1870-12-21 |
Sir Patrick Duncan, Fortrie, Banffshire, Scotland, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943) |
1871-05-10 |
Arthur T. Walden, With Byrd at the South Pole |
1872-07-16 |
Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole |
1873-04-10 |
Frank Wild, South |
1874-02-15 |
Ernest Shackleton, South |
1874-04-14 |
Count Alexander, of Athlone, gov-gen (South-Africa/Canada) |
1874-04-26 |
J H "Biddy" Anderson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v Australia 1902) |
1874-05-22 |
Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54) |
1874-11-07 |
Joseph Willoughby, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96) |
1875-03-26 |
Syngman Rhee, P'yŏngsan Hwanghae Province, first President of South Korea (1948-60) |
1875-05-04 |
Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (1st of great South African googlists) |
1875-06-08 |
Thomas B. Middleton, South Sea Adventures |
1876-04-14 |
Murray Bisset, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 & 1910) |
1876-06-04 |
Robert Dower, cricketer (1 Test South Africa v England 1898, scored 0 & 9) |
1876-11-28 |
Bert Vogler, cricketer (early South African googly bowler) |
1877-02-21 |
Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist |
1878-01-09 |
John Broadus Watson, Travelers Rest South Carolina, American Psychologist (behaviorism approach) |
1878-01-26 |
A W "Dave" Nourse, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of South African cricket) |
1878-04-07 |
C M M Hathorn, cricketer (South African Test centurion in 1905-06) |
1879-08-07 |
J J Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (1902-07) |
1880-05-21 |
Victor H. Czegka, With Byrd at the South Pole |
1880-08-17 |
Percy Sherwell, cricketer (great South African batsman-keeper-captain) |
1880-10-14 |
Raymond Wells, The Lure of the South Seas |
1880-12-28 |
Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet |
1881-03-13 |
Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer |
1881-04-08 |
Charles J. Hunt, South of Panama |
1881-04-23 |
Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22) |
1882-02-09 |
Thomas Campbell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (5 Tests 1909-12) |
1883-02-21 |
J M M "Mick" Commaille, cricketer (dual South African cricket/soccer rep) |
1883-08-07 |
Clifford Marle, The Adventures of Lieutenant Daring R.N.: In a South American Port |
1883-08-14 |
Ernest Everett Just, Charleston South Carolina, African-American embryologist known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially fertilization and cell division |
1883-11-17 |
Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1913) |
1884-02-04 |
Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (South African batsman in 5 tests 1912-14) |
1884-02-12 |
Billy Emerson, Headin' South |
1885-03-16 |
Sydney Chaplin, South Africa, actor (Limelight) |
1885-10-02 |
Fern Foster, McVeagh of the South Seas |
1885-9-04 |
James R. Sullivan, Venus of the South Seas |
1886-06-28 |
Joe Cox, cricketer (South African pace bowler in 1913-14 series v England) |
1886-08-13 |
Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter |
1887-02-11 |
John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen) |
1887-04-04 |
William Cumming Rose, Greenville South Carolina, American Biochemist who discovered threonine (an amino acid) |
1887-08-02 |
Tommy Ward, Former South African cricketer (d. 1936) |
1887-08-24 |
William O'Leary, South Sea Woman |
1887-11-17 |
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Alamein, British Field Marshal, Kennington, South London |
1888-10-25 |
Richard E. Byrd, With Byrd at the South Pole |
1889-03-16 |
Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951) |
1889-05-05 |
Herbie Taylor, cricketer (prolific South African pre- & post-WWI) |
1889-06-20 |
John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951) |
1889-07-26 |
Warren Hastings, Aroma of the South Seas |
1889-09-03 |
Cecil Weston, South Africa, actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn) |
1890-12-27 |
Nick DeMaggio, Pickup on South Street |
1891-02-12 |
Cecil Dixon, cricket off-spinner (1 Test for South Africa, 3-118, pair) |
1891-03-14 |
John P Strijbos, Dutch writer (Wandering through South-Africa) |
1892-01-03 |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings) |
1892-05-08 |
Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show) |
1892-06-13 |
Basil Rathbone, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Sherlock Holmes) |
1892-07-22 |
John MacBryan, cricketer (one Test Eng v South Africa 1924 DNBat, DNbowl) |
1892-08-18 |
Bill Bambridge, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas |
1892-9-24 |
Ward Hamilton, South of St. Louis |
1893-07-14 |
John G Strijdom, premier of South-Africa (1954-58) |
1893-11-23 |
Jimmy Blanckenberg, cricket pace bowler (took 60 wickets for South Africa) |
1893-12-31 |
J M Blankenberg, cricketer (60 wkts in 18 Tests for South Africa) |
1894-08-22 |
Cecil Kellaway, South Africa, actor (Mr Earnshaw-Wuthering Heights) |
1894-08-23 |
James La Guma, Bloemfontein, South African political activist and trade unionist |
1894-10-05 |
Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948) |
1894-12-05 |
Charles Robberts, Winburg district of the Orange Free State, The first State President of South Africa |
1895-02-03 |
Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 & 4*, 0-52) |
1895-02-17 |
Anita Stewart, NY, actress (South of Hell Mountain) |
1895-07-21 |
H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain (1927-31) |
1895-11-16 |
Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzhubin], Russ poet/journalist (South-West) |
1896-01-08 |
Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South) |
1896-02-07 |
Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ) |
1896-05-21 |
Kathryn Johnson, South Pacific |
1897-05-10 |
Dalton Parry Conyngham, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1923) |
1897-08-26 |
Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990) |
1897-12-16 |
Jacobus Petrus Duminy, cricketer (three Tests for South Africa 1927-29) |
1898-06-11 |
Delmer Blair, South Pacific |
1899-04-04 |
William Brann, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1922-23) |
1899-09-29 |
Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter |
1899-10-11 |
A L "Oosh" Ochse, cricketer (no relation to A E South African fast bowler) |
1899-12-06 |
Harry Buller Siege Willis, son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith |
1900-06-13 |
Ian Hunter, Capetown South Africa, actor (Dr Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn) |
1900-06-25 |
Izak D du Plessis, South African writer/director (3rd World) |
1900-07-10 |
Bob Catterall, cricketer (dashing South African batsman of 20's) |
1900-11-21 |
Jobyna Ralston, South Pittsburgh TN, actress (For Heaven's Sake) |
1901-01-03 |
Ngo Dinh Diem, pres/dictator of South Vietnam (1955-63) |
1901-09-08 |
Hendrik F Verwoerd, premier South Africa (1958-66) (assassinated) |
1901-10-02 |
[Ignatius] Roy [D] Campbell, South African poet (Flowering Rifle) |
1902-01-01 |
Buster Nupen, cricketer (1-eyed South African quick, great on matting) |
1902-03-28 |
Flora Robson, South Shields England, actress (Dominique is Dead) |
1902-10-14 |
Stanley Coen, cricketer (South African batsman in two Tests 1927-28) |
1903-01-11 |
Alan Paton, South Africa, writer (Cry, the Beloved Country) |
1903-10-24 |
Melvin Purvis, Timmonsville South Carolina, American FBI agent |
1903-11-11 |
Thomas Edward Allibone, Sheffield South Yorkshire, English Physicist (Manhattan Project, high-voltage particle acceleration) |
1904-01-26 |
Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail) |
1904-06-23 |
Quintin McMillan, cricketer (South African leg spinner 1929-32) |
1904-12-12 |
Jim Christy, righty cricket batter (Transvaal, Queensland & South Africa) |
1905-03-27 |
John Fleming (Jack) Brock, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, one of South Africa's most distinguished nutritional scientists and medical educators |
1905-04-03 |
Hank Newman, South of the Chisholm Trail |
1905-07-05 |
Jock Cameron, South African cricket keeper (captain) |
1905-11-05 |
George Bissett, cricketer (successful South African quick in 1927-28) |
1905-11-05 |
Joel McCrea, South Pasadena California, actor (Marshal-Wichita Town) |
1906-01-06 |
Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator (Zulu-English Dictionary) |
1906-02-27 |
H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat (South Africa/Tibet) |
1906-04-15 |
A J "Sandy" Bell, South African cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35) |
1906-07-07 |
Hank Vadare, South Pacific |
1906-12-02 |
Eric Dalton, cricketer (2 centuries in 15 Tests for South Africa 1929-39) |
1907-02-03 |
James A. Michner, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, American author (Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii) |
1907-02-03 |
James A. Michener, South Pacific |
1907-02-22 |
Don the Beachcomber, South Seas Adventure |
1907-05-17 |
Horace McMahon, South Norwalk Ct, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye) |
1907-07-20 |
Frederick E. Crockett, With Byrd at the South Pole |
1907-11-19 |
George Hall, South Pacific |
1907-11-27 |
Harve Foster, Song of the South |
1907-12-16 |
Syd Curnow, cricketer (South African batsman in 7 Tests 1930-32) |
1908-04-05 |
Grady Sutton, Chattanooga Tn, actor (Pruitts of South Hampton) |
1908-05-26 |
Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Prime Minister of South Vietnam |
1908-08-27 |
Donald [George] Bradman, Cootamundra New South Wales, Australian cricketer (6,996 runs) |
1908-10-05 |
Joshua Logan, Broadway producer (South Pacific) |
1908-9-06 |
Alfred Schieske, Pippi in the South Seas |
1908-9-15 |
Jules Schermer, Pickup on South Street |
1909-01-08 |
Bruce Mitchell, cricketer (South African bat, their top run-scorer (3471)) |
1909-02-11 |
Nellie Duran, South of Pago Pago |
1909-02-19 |
Charlie Walker, South Aust cricket wicket-keeper (toured but no Tests) |
1909-03-19 |
Louis Hayward, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors) |
1909-04-05 |
Gerald Bond, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1938, 0 & 0-16) |
1909-06-10 |
Mary Field, Song of the South |
1909-07-15 |
John Cochrane, South African cricket pace bowler (one Test 1931) |
1909-07-20 |
Eric Rowan, South African cricketer (prolific batsman pre- & post-WWII) |
1909-07-23 |
Helen Martin, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1909-08-02 |
Lord Benson [Henry Alexander], Johannesburg South Africa, British accountant (Coopers & Lybrand) |
1909-08-14 |
Len Darling, cricketer (South Australian & Test batsman of 30's) |
1909-08-24 |
Ronnie Grieveson, South African cricket keeper/batsman (2 Tests v Eng 1939) |
1909-08-26 |
Eric Quail Davies, cricket pace bowler (5 Tests for South Africa 1935-39) |
1909-11-19 |
Moses Josiah Madiba, Seshego, Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district, South African author and first African chancellor of the University of the North |
1909-12-28 |
Lou Meltzer, Bilko Goes South |
1910-02-04 |
Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert) |
1910-05-19 |
Alan Melville, cricketer (graceful South African batsman 1938-49) |
1910-07-08 |
Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader (ANC/SACP) |
1910-10-15 |
Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (South African leg-spinner of 30's) |
1910-11-12 |
A "Dudley" Nourse, cricketer (son of Dave, brilliant South African bat) |
1910-11-26 |
Cyril Cusack, Durban Natal South Africa, actor (Day of the Jackal) |
1911-02-06 |
A W "Dooley" Briscoe, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for South Africa 30's) |
1911-02-08 |
Elizabeth Bishop, US poet (North & South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956) |
1911-05-28 |
Bob Crisp, cricketer (South African pace bowler of 1930s) |
1911-06-01 |
Erik Rolf, Song of the South |
1912-09-13 |
Reta Shaw, South Paris Maine, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir) |
1912-12-26 |
Ben Kadish, South Pacific |
1913-05-22 |
Andrea C Bensddorp, Dutch/South African actress (Commensaal) |
1913-09-10 |
Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, pres South Afr Pan-African Congress (1986- ) |
1913-10-17 |
Leonard J. South, Hang 'Em High |
1913-10-20 |
Bao Dai, emperor of Annam/Indochina/head of South Vietnam (1949-55) |
1913-10-22 |
Bo Dai, Huế, last Emperor of Vietnam (1926-45) and Chief of State of South Vietnam (1949-55) |
1914-01-20 |
Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor (Winston Churchill-Ike) |
1914-02-20 |
John Daly, South Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line) |
1914-02-27 |
Olov Wigren, South of the Highway |
1914-04-19 |
Archie Savage, South Pacific |
1914-05-02 |
Dennis Dyer, cricketer (opened batting for South Africa v England 1947) |
1914-05-19 |
Maurice Rapf, Song of the South |
1914-06-18 |
Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper (South African in 11 Tests 1938-50) |
1914-06-29 |
Dr Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo, Thaba-Nchu Orange Free State, South African member of parliament (ANC) and noted writer ("Call me Woman") |
1914-08-07 |
Ted Moore, South Africa, cinematographer (James Bond) |
1914-09-05 |
Gail Kubik, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, composer (Gerald McBoing Boing) |
1914-10-05 |
Kay St. Germain Wells, How to See South America by Bus |
1914-12-12 |
Denis Begbie, cricketer (South African batsman in five Tests 1948-50) |
1915-02-26 |
Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poetess (That Woman & Other Verses) |
1915-04-17 |
Joe Foss, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, American fighter ace (Medal of Honor-1943) and politician (d. 2003) |
1915-04-20 |
Joseph Wolpe, South African-born psychotherapist (d. 1997) |
1915-07-17 |
Habib Rajab, Durban, South African, a trader and collector of oriental art |
1915-12-13 |
Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-77) |
1916-01-12 |
A P[ieter] W Botha, Orange Free State, president of South Africa |
1916-03-16 |
Niní Gambier, The South |
1916-05-24 |
Roden Cutler, Governor (New South Wales) |
1916-06-04 |
Robert Furchgott, Charleston South Carolina, American Chemist and Nobel Laureate |
1916-11-22 |
Ila McAvoy, South Pacific |
1916-9-18 |
Rossano Brazzi, South Pacific |
1917-08-06 |
Robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South) |
1917-08-15 |
Martin Ljung, Pippi in the South Seas |
1917-09-30 |
Chung Hee Park, general/pres of South Korea (1961-79), assassinated |
1917-11-20 |
Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987) |
1918-01-28 |
Carl Kent, A Wind from the South |
1918-07-09 |
Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er |
1918-07-18 |
Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/President (1994-1999)/ Nobel (1993) |
1919-02-06 |
Lindsay Tuckett, cricketer (son of Len, 9 Tests for South Africa 1947-49) |
1919-04-09 |
Ryan Hayes, South Wind |
1919-05-22 |
Douglas Heyes, North and South |
1919-05-23 |
Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary |
1919-07-16 |
Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006) |
1919-12-25 |
Freddie Baker, South Pacific |
1920-05-26 |
Jack Cheetham, cricketer (South African batsman, Test capt early 50's) |
1920-09-23 |
Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon |
1920-12-07 |
Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002) |
1920-12-28 |
Bruce McCarty, South Bend, Indiana, architect (1982 World Fair), (d. 2013) |
1921-02-07 |
Athol Rowan, cricketer (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner) |
1921-03-29 |
Hugh Neill, Lord-Lieutenant (South Yorkshire) |
1921-05-17 |
Alice Hammerstein, Passion, Prejudice and South Pacific: Creating an American Masterpiece |
1921-07-10 |
Jeff Donnell, South Windham Maine, actor (Gidget Goes to Rome) |
1921-08-27 |
Roy Damron, South Pacific |
1922-04-30 |
Anton Murray, cricketer (South African batsman in 10 Tests 1951-55) |
1922-06-11 |
John Bromfield, South Bend In, actor (Easy to Love) |
1922-10-13 |
Gilberto Mendes, A Child from the South |
1922-11-08 |
Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant) |
1922-12-08 |
George Fullerton, cricketer (South African keeper-batsman 1947-51) |
1922-12-10 |
Kalle Bergholm, Pippi in the South Seas |
1923-01-08 |
Giorgio Tozzi, South Pacific |
1923-04-05 |
Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam President (1965-75) |
1923-04-10 |
John Watkins, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 15 Tests 49-57) |
1923-04-25 |
Floyd Simmons, South Pacific |
1923-04-28 |
William Guarnere, South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American WWII Veteran portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, (d. 2014) |
1923-08-31 |
Nikolaus Schilling, Pippi in the South Seas |
1923-10-05 |
Glynis Johns, Pretoria South Africa, actress (Mary Poppins) |
1923-11-20 |
Nadine Gordimer, South African author (July's people, Nobel 1991) |
1923-12-20 |
Nadine Gordimer, Springs South Africa, novelist |
1923-12-24 |
Wilton S Mkwayi, South African ANC leader |
1924-05-13 |
Harry Schwarz, South African MP and Ambassador to the US |
1924-05-31 |
Russell Endean, cricketer (28 Tests for South Africa, handled the ball 1956) |
1924-07-26 |
Elias Motsoaledi, South African Umkhonto we Sizwe-commandant |
1924-10-01 |
Carlton Risdon, Goin' South |
1924-10-15 |
Nigel Green, South Africa, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File) |
1924-10-16 |
Joe Bailey, South Pacific |
1925-02-20 |
Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night) |
1925-05-04 |
Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn) |
1925-05-24 |
Francois J [Frank] le Roux, chief whip (South Afr Conserv Party) |
1925-06-19 |
Alfred B Nzo, South African sec-gen ANC (1969- ) |
1925-06-28 |
Anne Mackenzie, South African long distance athlete |
1925-08-15 |
Gertrude Shope, South African head (ANC female section) |
1925-08-15 |
Gertrude Shope, Johannesburg, South Africa, leader of the ANC Women's League |
1925-10-14 |
Phillip Tobias, Durban, Natal, South Africa, palaeoanthropologist and 3 x Nobel Prize nominee(hominid fossil sites), (d. 2012) |
1925-10-24 |
Jayaaram N Reddy, South African politician/banker |
1925-11-10 |
Richard Burton, South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf) |
1925-12-03 |
Ken Funston, South African cricket batsman (18 Tests during 1950's) |
1925-12-03 |
Kim Dae Jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate |
1925-12-25 |
Christmas F Tinto, South African ANC'er/UDF-leader |
1926-01-06 |
Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel laureate |
1926-01-29 |
Roberto Goyeneche, The South |
1926-02-20 |
Edgar Meuli, cricketer (opened NZ batting in Test v South Africa 1953) |
1926-03-01 |
Pete Rozelle, [Alvin Rozelle] South Gate California, American NFL commissioner (1960-89) |
1926-03-09 |
Gerrit A Kooy, Dutch sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa) |
1926-05-17 |
Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor (U of South Pacific) |
1926-09-11 |
Gerrit van Niekerk Viljoen, South African minister of Legislation |
1926-10-18 |
Bobby Beers, South of Santa Fe |
1926-12-24 |
Ronald Draper, cricketer (South African batsman v Australia 1949-50) |
1926-12-26 |
Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader (17 yrs in Robbeneiland Jail) |
1927-03-29 |
Arthur Ravenel Jr, (Rep-R-South Carolina) |
1927-05-05 |
Sid O'Linn, cricketer (soccer for South Africa 1947, cricket 1960) |
1927-05-24 |
Martinus J Mentz, South African MP (Conservative) |
1927-07-22 |
George Hunter, South Africa, light heavyweight boxer (Oly-gold-1948) |
1927-10-21 |
Nadine Judd, [Nadia Moore/Nerina], South African/British ballerina |
1927-10-25 |
Hedley Keith, cricketer (solid left-handed for South Africa in the 1950's) |
1927-11-04 |
Bobby Breen, Way Down South |
1927-11-09 |
Carel W H Boshoff, South African head (Broederbond/Volkswag) |
1927-12-20 |
Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea |
1928-03-01 |
Seymour Papert, South African mathematician |
1928-03-19 |
Clive Van Ryneveld, cricketer (South African all-rounder 1951-58) |
1928-05-04 |
Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg South Carolina, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60) |
1928-06-28 |
Peter Heine, cricketer (solid South African fast bowler in 1950's) |
1928-07-10 |
Jack Nel, cricketer (South African opening bat in 6 Tests 1949-57) |
1928-10-17 |
Zacharias J de Beer, South African physician/MP (DP) |
1928-11-12 |
Robert Holness, Natal, South Africa, English radio and television presenter (BBC), (d. 2012) |
1929-01-23 |
Ian Thomson, cricketer (England seam bowler v South Africa 1964-65) |
1929-01-30 |
Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (celebrated South African off-spinner 1949-60) |
1929-03-11 |
Jackie McGlew, cricketer (dour South African opening bat of the 50') |
1929-03-24 |
Cuan McCarthy, cricketer (36 Test wkts for South Africa, 1 career no-ball) |
1929-05-21 |
Paul Winslow, cricketer (big-hitter for South Africa, 108 v England 1955) |
1929-05-23 |
Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965- ) |
1929-06-28 |
Helena van Heerden, South African pianist |
1929-08-12 |
Peter Greenwell, Twenty Minutes South |
1929-08-23 |
Ann South, Anna Karenina |
1929-11-05 |
Faye Antaky, South Pacific |
1929-12-09 |
Bob Hawke, Bordertown, South Australia, 23rd Australian Prime Minister (1983-91) and Leader of the Labor Party |
1929-9-07 |
Harry South, School for Sex |
1929-9-18 |
Jack Mullaney, South Pacific |
1930-01-01 |
Yvonne De Lavallade, South Pacific |
1930-01-11 |
Rod Taylor, Sydney, New South Wales, Australian actor (The Birds, Time Machine) |
1930-01-14 |
Kenny Wheeler, South of Black Drink Crier |
1930-01-16 |
Guil Fisher, South of No North |
1930-01-19 |
John Waite, cricket wicket-keeper (great South African) |
1930-01-30 |
Magnus Adem Malan, South African minister of Defense (1980- ) |
1930-04-15 |
Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre (COSATU) |
1930-04-26 |
Buck Class, South Pacific |
1930-04-27 |
Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs |
1930-06-03 |
Michael Melle, cricketer (South African pace bowler of early 1950's) |
1930-06-07 |
Ian Leggat, cricketer (1 Test v South Africa 1953-54 without distinction) |
1930-07-09 |
Roy McLean, cricketer (prolific South African batsman played 40 Tests) |
1930-08-04 |
David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader |
1930-09-08 |
Nguyen Cao Ky, Premier of South Vietnam |
1930-10-13 |
Peter J Clase, South African minister of Education/Culture (1985- ) |
1930-11-19 |
Al Ramrus, Goin' South |
1931-01-10 |
Alexander L "Alex" Boraine, South Africa vicar/MP |
1931-03-08 |
Neil Adcock, cricketer (South African pace bowler, 104 wkts 1953-62), (d. 2013) |
1931-04-19 |
Hendrick J "Kobie" Coetsee, South Africa minister of Defense/Justice |
1931-06-03 |
Raúl Castro, South of the Border |
1931-07-15 |
Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs |
1931-08-01 |
Trevor Goddard, cricketer (South African opening batsman & opening bowler) |
1931-08-02 |
Eddie Fuller, cricketer (South African fast bowler in 7 Tests 1952-58) |
1931-08-09 |
Mark Weinberg, South African/British fiancier/multi-millionaire |
1931-09-04 |
Mitzi Gaynor, Chicago Illinois, American actress/singer/dancer (Anything Goes, South Pacific) |
1931-11-15 |
John Kerr, NYC, actor (South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit & Pendulum) |
1931-11-15 |
John Kerr, South Pacific |
1931-12-16 |
Lenmana Guerin, South Pacific |
1931-12-28 |
Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance |
1931-9-09 |
Gene Holland, Song of the South |
1931-9-16 |
Jan Johansson, Pippi in the South Seas |
1932-03-04 |
Miriam Makeba, Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965) |
1932-03-15 |
Arif Mardin, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1932-03-18 |
F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk, president South Africa (1989-94) |
1932-03-31 |
Godfrey Lawrence, cricketer (South African fast bowler, 8-53 v NZ 1961) |
1932-04-17 |
Jonni Paris, South Pacific |
1932-06-11 |
Athol Fugard, Middleburg South Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot) |
1932-07-27 |
Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader |
1932-10-19 |
Lloyd Haynes, South Bend Indiana, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222) |
1932-11-11 |
John Caler, South Pacific |
1932-11-30 |
Cho Namchul, South Korean professional Go player (d. 2006) |
1932-12-04 |
Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea (1988-93) |
1932-12-18 |
Roger Smith, South Gate California, actor (77 Sunset Strip) |
1933-03-06 |
Kim Elgie, cricketer (South African bat v NZ 1961-62, Scotland RU intl) |
1933-03-12 |
Durwood Bloomgren, South Pacific |
1933-03-22 |
Chris Duckworth, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1956-57) |
1933-04-29 |
Keith Baxter, South Wales, actor (Barretts at Wimpole Street) |
1933-05-03 |
James Brown, Barnwell, South Carolina, American soul singer (Hot Pants, Living in America) and originator of funk music (d. 2006) |
1933-07-17 |
Tony Pithey, cricketer (brother of David, South African batsman in 17 Tests) |
1933-08-14 |
Bryce Courtenay, Johannesburg, South Africa, Australian novelist (The Power of One), (d. 2012) |
1933-10-10 |
Gerald Masters, South African/British author (Pan Book of Dates) |
1933-10-12 |
Donald Mundell, South Pacific |
1933-10-13 |
Monica Meyer, South Pacific |
1933-12-06 |
Jim Pothecary, cricketer (South African pace bowler on 1960 England tour) |
1934-01-08 |
Georg Riedel, Pippi in the South Seas |
1934-02-22 |
Sparky Anderson [George Lee Anderson], Bridgewater South Dakota, American MLB manager (Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers) |
1934-05-26 |
Abdulah M "Dulah" Omar, South African attorney/UDF-leader |
1934-08-14 |
Anita Louise Dano, South Pacific |
1934-08-20 |
Sneaky Pete Kleinow, South Blend, IN, country-rock musician (Flying Burrito Brothers), (d. 2007) |
1934-10-03 |
Harold Ralph Henning, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (1966 Texas Open) |
1934-11-09 |
Ronald Harwood, [Horwitz], South African playwright (Dresser) |
1935-02-05 |
John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South African army |
1935-03-09 |
Sister Bernard Ncube, South African nun |
1935-05-26 |
Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress |
1935-05-29 |
Andre P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season) |
1935-05-29 |
Denis J Worrall, South African politician/leader (DP) |
1935-06-25 |
Wynand Breytenbach, South African under minister of Defense (1986- ) |
1935-07-01 |
Carl Esser, South Pacific |
1935-07-12 |
Chris Burger, cricketer (South African batsman v Australia 1957-58) |
1935-07-24 |
George Varnals, South African cricket batsman (England 1964-65) |
1935-08-05 |
Zakes Mokae, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Comedians) |
1935-10-09 |
Paul Barton, cricketer (NZ batsman in early 1960's, century v South Africa) |
1935-11-01 |
Gary Player, Johannesburg, South African PGA golfer (Brit Open-1959, 68, 74) |
1935-12-31 |
Glenn Leedy, Song of the South |
1936-01-08 |
Ferdinand Hartzenberg, South African minister of Education (1979-82) |
1936-02-02 |
Darlene Engle, South Pacific |
1936-04-10 |
Barbara Donaldson, South Pacific |
1936-09-14 |
Nicol Williamson, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scottish actor (Excalibur, Spawn) |
1936-09-26 |
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician |
1936-10-13 |
Åke Hartwig, Pippi in the South Seas |
1936-10-22 |
Neville E Alexander, South african (10 years in Robbeneiland Jail) |
1936-12-08 |
W S "Buster" Farrer, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1962-64) |
1936-9-04 |
John Coldren, South Pacific |
1937-03-14 |
Peter van der Merwe, cricketer (South African captain of mid-1960's) |
1937-03-14 |
Jarl Borssén, Pippi in the South Seas |
1937-06-11 |
Chad Everett [Raymon Lee Cramton], South Bend, Indiana, American actor (Medical Center, Airplane II) |
1937-07-01 |
Ebrahim I Ebrahim, South African ANCer/Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader |
1937-11-15 |
Jimmy Ellis, RockHill, South Carolina, soul singer (The Trammps - Disco Inferno), (d. 2012) |
1937-12-11 |
Adrian J Vlok, South African NP-minister of Law & Order (1986- ) |
1938-04-05 |
Colin Bland, cricketer (South African bat Maybe the best cover field) |
1938-05-21 |
Derek Marlowe, Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest |
1938-05-24 |
Glen Hall, cricket leg-spinner (South African in one Test v England 1964) |
1938-07-06 |
Luana Patten, Song of the South |
1938-07-18 |
Dudu Pukwana, [Mtutuzel], South African/British saxophonist/composer |
1938-07-18 |
Dudu Pukwana, Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa |
1938-10-28 |
Peter Carlstein, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1958-64) |
1938-11-19 |
Richard Dumbrill, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 5 Tests 1965-67) |
1938-11-24 |
Wynne Bradburn, cricketer (father of Grant NZ batsman v South Africa 1964) |
1938-12-09 |
Elizabeth H "Rina" Venter, South African minister of Health care |
1938-12-15 |
Dennis RB Madide, South African Internal minister of Transkei |
1939-02-09 |
Janet Suzman, South African actress (Dry White Season, Nuns on the Run) |
1939-04-04 |
Hugh Masekela, Wilbank South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid) |
1939-04-15 |
Marty Wilder, Blackheath, South London, English singer-songwriter and father of rocker Kim Wilde |
1939-06-06 |
Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader (Inyandza Natl Movement) |
1939-06-26 |
Smangaliso P Mkhatshwa, South Africa, sec-gen (Bishops' Conference 1983-88) |
1939-07-26 |
Wopko Jensma, Middelburg, Eastern Province, South African poet and graphic designer |
1939-09-15 |
Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet/painter |
1939-09-17 |
Joseph Mosikili, South African actor/singer |
1939-10-11 |
Franklin A Sonn, union leader (South African workers) |
1939-11-05 |
Ken Walter, South African cricket pace bowler (1961-62 series v NZ) |
1940-01-17 |
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet (Fireflames) |
1940-01-19 |
Barend J du Plessis, South African minister of Finance (1984- ) |
1940-02-17 |
Dennis Gamsy, cricketer (South African bat in 2 Tests v Australia 1970) |
1940-02-22 |
Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress) |
1940-02-28 |
Joe South, Atlanta, Georgia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Games People Play), (d. 2012) |
1940-02-28 |
Joe South, Children of Men |
1940-05-18 |
Pat Trimborn, cricket pace bowler (South African in 4 Tests 1966-70) |
1940-06-05 |
H R "Tiger" Lance, cricketer (South African batting all-rounder 1961-67) |
1940-06-23 |
Simon Hobday, Mareking South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Senior Open) |
1940-07-10 |
Dawid J "Dawie" de Villiers, South African minister of energy (1989- ) |
1940-07-21 |
James E Clyburn, (Rep-D-South Carolina) |
1940-08-10 |
Richard Wells, Chief Constable (South Yorkshire) |
1940-08-12 |
Eddie Barlow, cricketer (Great South African all-rounder) |
1940-08-31 |
Jack Thompson [John Payne], Sydney, New South Wales, Australian actor (Breaker Morant, The Man from Snowy River) |
1940-10-21 |
Manfred Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], South Africa, rocker (Mighty Quinn) |
1941-09-07 |
Mogoboya NN Ramadike, South African politician in Lebowa |
1941-11-14 |
Hermanus J Kriel, South African minister of Planning (1989- ) |
1942-01-14 |
Amichand Rajbansi, South African politician |
1942-05-22 |
Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member/heads (Radio Freedom) |
1942-05-24 |
Ali Bacher, cricketer (South African batsman & capt in 60's) |
1942-06-18 |
Thabo Mbeki, Idutywa, Transkei, South Africa, former President of South Africa |
1942-06-18 |
Thabo M Mbeki, South African economist/1st vice-president (1994- ) |
1942-06-28 |
"Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, sec-gen (South African Communist Party) |
1942-10-26 |
John P "Jannie" Roux, South African sect to pres (Botha/De Klerk) |
1942-11-21 |
Johan Clason, Pippi in the South Seas |
1943-03-16 |
Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005) |
1943-03-30 |
Bob Blewett, cricketer (father of Greg South Aust batsman 1975-79) |
1943-05-25 |
Wynand C Malan, South African lawyer/NP/DP-politician |
1943-11-09 |
John Shepherd, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa) |
1943-12-28 |
Oscar D Dhlomo, South African sect-gen of Inkatha (1978-90) |
1944-01-10 |
Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer |
1944-01-12 |
Joe Frazier, Beaufort South Carolina, HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1964)/champ (1968-73) |
1944-02-27 |
Graeme Pollock, cricketer (South African batting prodigy) |
1944-03-09 |
Lee Irvine, cricketer (South African batsman, only Tests in 1970) |
1944-03-15 |
Linda Fontanette, South Central |
1944-04-08 |
Hywel Bennett, South Wales, actor (Family Way, Shelley) |
1944-05-14 |
Maureen Byrnes, Goin' South |
1944-08-19 |
Samuel J de Beer, South Africa vicar/underminister of Education |
1944-10-10 |
Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader |
1945-06-27 |
Omar Badsha, Durban, South Africa, South African photographer, trade unionist and political activist |
1945-07-21 |
Barry Richards, extraordinary cricket batsman (4 Tests for South Africa) |
1945-9-13 |
Salvatore Misticone, Welcome to the South |
1946-01-09 |
Paul V. Liu, South Sea Woman |
1946-01-24 |
John Harrison, South Africa correspondent (BBC) |
1946-08-06 |
Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician |
1946-09-01 |
Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea |
1946-10-06 |
Tony Greig, South Africa, cricketer (English all-rounder 1972-77), (d. 2012) |
1946-10-13 |
Edwina Currie, London and South East |
1946-10-29 |
Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist |
1946-12-18 |
Stephen (Steve) Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist |
1946-12-28 |
Tim Johnson, American politician, senior senator from South Dakota |
1946-9-25 |
Seiji Izumi, South to the Horizon |
1947-01-01 |
Alan Abelew, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1947-03-24 |
Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP) |
1947-04-11 |
Uli Edel, Neuenburg am Rhein, South Baden, German film director |
1947-05-17 |
John Traicos, cricketer (in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93) |
1947-06-05 |
Eric Molobi, South Africa, activist (ANC) |
1947-06-13 |
Daniel P A "Danie" Schutte, South African underminister of Justice |
1947-06-30 |
Tapio Kouki, The South |
1947-08-07 |
Mosibudi Mangena, South African black leader (On Your Own) |
1947-12-19 |
Janie Fricke, South Whitley In, singer (It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy) |
1947-12-30 |
Stephanus S "Tian" van Merwe, leader (South Africa Democratic Party) |
1948-01-17 |
Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader |
1948-04-04 |
John Lee Beatty, 'South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall |
1948-05-15 |
Leslie Wenner, South of the Border |
1948-06-22 |
Maria Melin, Sergeant Körmy and the South Pacific |
1948-08-13 |
Mosiuoa Patrick "Terror" Lekota, South African UDF/ANC-leader |
1948-10-21 |
Moses J "Moss" Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader |
1949-03-22 |
Graham Fowler, South West 9 |
1949-07-14 |
Lukas D Barnard, head of South Africa secret service (NIS) |
1949-07-23 |
Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder (WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991) |
1949-08-12 |
Anthony Akerman, South Africa, director |
1949-08-20 |
Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer |
1949-10-31 |
Dumisa B Ntsebeza, South African attorney/anti-apartheid activist |
1950-01-29 |
Jody Schecter, South African auto maker (World Driver's 1979) |
1950-03-18 |
Chuck Schulthies II, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1950-05-03 |
Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days) |
1950-09-17 |
Lawrence Anthony, Johannesberg, South Africa, conservationist and author, (d. 2012) |
1950-10-05 |
Aake Kalliala, The Hijack That Went South |
1950-11-07 |
Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher |
1950-12-03 |
Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist |
1950-12-30 |
Yunus I Mahomed, South African attorney/leader (UDF) |
1951-03-09 |
Helen Zille, South African politician |
1951-03-19 |
Warren Hsieh, South Pacific |
1951-10-12 |
Sally Little, Cape Town South Africa, LPGA golfer (1982 Dinah Shore) |
1951-10-15 |
Roscoe Tanner, Kiawah Island South Carolina, tennis player (Wimbledon Finals 1979) |
1952-01-23 |
Omar Henry, cricketer (1st colored player for South Africa 1992) |
1952-03-10 |
Oupa J Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant (Ciskei) |
1952-04-26 |
Popo Simon Molefe, secretary-general (South Africa UDF) |
1952-05-10 |
Lee Brilleaux, Durban South Africa, British musician (Dr Feelgood) |
1952-07-14 |
Joel Silver, South Orange NJ, producer (Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard) |
1952-07-15 |
Larry Blank, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1952-10-09 |
Sharon Osbourne, Brixton, South London, music manager, TV personality and wife of Ozzy Osbourne (X-Factor, America's Got Talent) |
1952-11-17 |
M Cyril Ramaphosa, sec-gen of South African Mine Workers' Union |
1953-01-22 |
Myung-Whun Chung, Seoul South Korea, pianist/conductor (Chung Trio) |
1953-01-29 |
Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist |
1953-02-02 |
James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president (NACTU) |
1953-02-19 |
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, South of the Border |
1953-02-25 |
Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor |
1953-03-08 |
Jim Rice, Anderson, South Carolina, American MLB left fielder (AL MVP 1978) |
1953-03-12 |
Jeff Osterhage, South of Reno |
1953-05-27 |
Robert L. Wilson, Goin' South |
1953-06-26 |
Ralph Ezell, Union Miss, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South) |
1953-07-13 |
Violeta Dinescu, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas |
1953-07-15 |
John Denham, More Power to the South? A South Today Special |
1953-07-31 |
Jimmy Cook, cricketer (South African opening batsman 1992) |
1953-08-11 |
Sanford Jensen, South Haven Mich, actor (Foley Square) |
1953-09-11 |
Jani Allan, South African journalist and media personality |
1953-10-14 |
Greg Evigan, South Amboy NJ, actor (BJ-BJ & the Bear, Melrose Place) |
1954-03-02 |
Stone Phumelele Sizani, South African treasurer (UDF) |
1954-03-20 |
Jim Seales, Hamilton Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South) |
1954-05-02 |
Bulelani T Ngcuka, South African attorney/leader (UDF) |
1954-06-20 |
Alan [Joseph] Lamb, South African/British cricket player (Northampton) |
1954-06-28 |
Alice Krige, South African actress (Chariots of Fire, Ladykiller) |
1954-07-06 |
Willie Randolph, Holly Hill South Carolina, former New York Mets manager |
1954-12-22 |
Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader |
1955-05-14 |
Peter Kirsten, cricketer (South African middle-order batsman) |
1956-01-31 |
Trevor A Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader |
1956-02-25 |
Tommy Lynch, South of Nowhere |
1956-04-29 |
Josh Shainberg, South of Heaven, West of Hell |
1956-06-25 |
Bongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa, Vryheid, Natal, South African artist |
1956-06-30 |
Paris Barclay, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1956-07-03 |
Eddie Edwards, South Africa, tennis star |
1956-08-25 |
Pete Demetriou, South Bureau Homicide |
1956-10-02 |
Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader (spent 3 yrs in Robbeneiland Jail) |
1956-10-04 |
Sherri Turner, Greenville South Carolina, LPGA golfer (1988 Mazda LPGA Champ) |
1956-10-08 |
Janice E Voss Ford, South Bend Ind, PhD/Astronaut (STS 57, 63, 83, 94) |
1956-10-08 |
Janice Voss, South Bend, Indiana, astronaut (shuttle radar topography mission), (d. 2012) |
1956-10-14 |
Beth Daniel, Charleston South Carolina, LPGA golfer (1990 Kemper Open) |
1956-11-25 |
Ena Heese, South African costume designer (Willem of Orange) |
1956-12-08 |
Michael C. Burgess, South of 8 |
1957-01-15 |
Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx Heroes) |
1957-01-28 |
Nick Price, Durban South Africa, PGA golfer (1991 Byron Nelson Classic) |
1957-02-09 |
Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader (UDF) |
1957-02-16 |
Kevin R. Young, North and South |
1957-03-19 |
Claudio Bisio, Welcome to the South |
1957-04-07 |
Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor |
1957-05-21 |
Staffan Hallerstam, Pippi in the South Seas |
1957-09-14 |
Kepler Wessels, Bloemfontein South Africa, South African cricketer who played for both Australia and South Africa, the latter as captain. |
1957-09-15 |
Fulton Peter Allem, Kroonstad South Africa, PGA golfer (1993 SW Bell) |
1957-10-22 |
Pär Sundberg, Pippi in the South Seas |
1957-12-26 |
Mike South, Rachel's Requiem |
1958-01-03 |
Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker |
1958-01-07 |
Peter R Mokaba, president (South African Youth Congress) |
1958-02-27 |
Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer |
1958-03-02 |
Kevin Curren, South Africa, tennis star |
1958-03-06 |
Igor Czerniawski, South by North |
1958-04-05 |
Johan Kriek, South Africa, tennis player (US Indoor 1982) |
1958-04-18 |
Malcolm Marshall, World Cup Match 17: South Africa vs West Indies |
1958-05-31 |
Mkhuseli Jack, South African UDF-leader (consumer boycots) |
1958-06-01 |
Megan Van Peebles, South Bronx Heroes |
1958-06-25 |
Debbie Green, South Korea, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984) |
1958-07-19 |
Michael Spielberg, South Central |
1958-08-11 |
Lori Garbacz, South Bend IN, LPGA golfer (1989 Circle K Tucson Open) |
1958-12-12 |
Giorgio Magliulo, Welcome to the South |
1958-12-28 |
Mike McGuire, Haleyville Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South) |
1959-01-19 |
Craig Williams, Due South |
1959-02-05 |
Gary Mortensen, 2612 South Ave. West |
1959-02-28 |
Sydney P Mufamadi, South African leader (SACP) |
1959-03-16 |
Stan Thorn, Kenosha Wisc, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South) |
1959-04-22 |
Nicky Le Roux, South Africa, LPGA golfer (1994 Atlanta Champ-15th) |
1959-05-04 |
Inger Nilsson, Pippi in the South Seas |
1959-05-29 |
Tamayo Otsuki, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1959-06-09 |
Maria Persson, Pippi in the South Seas |
1959-06-11 |
Mark Rezyka, South of Reno |
1959-07-01 |
Anne Garefino, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1959-07-05 |
Tim Shaw, cricketer (South African ODI slow lefty 1991) |
1959-07-26 |
Kevin Spacey, South Orange NJ, actor (Dad, Henry & June, Darrow) |
1959-08-24 |
Adrian Kuiper, cricketer (South African all-rounder) |
1959-09-11 |
David Laurence Frost, Cape Town South Africa, PGA golfer (1988 Southern Open) |
1959-10-11 |
Bob Inglis, (Rep-R-South Carolina) |
1959-10-15 |
Emeril Lagasse, South Florida Favorites |
1959-11-23 |
Don Reed, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1959-12-08 |
Marty Raybon, Sanford Fla, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South) |
1960-01-07 |
David Marciano, Newark NJ, actor (Det Ray Vecchio-Due South) |
1960-01-26 |
Jorma Friman, The Hijack That Went South |
1960-02-19 |
Keith Musa[kawukhathi] Zondi, South African head of Inkatha Youth Brigade |
1960-04-14 |
Pat Symcox, cricketer (South African off-spinner 1993- ) |
1960-05-12 |
Lisa Martin, Gawler, South Australia, Australian marathoner (Olympic-silver 1988) |
1960-05-27 |
John L. Chaldu, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1960-08-28 |
Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader |
1960-09-28 |
Derek James, Durban South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Infiniti) |
1960-10-17 |
Mandy Yachad, cricketer (South African ODI opening batsman 1991) |
1960-10-24 |
Steve Fish, North & South |
1960-11-02 |
Rosalyn Nideffer, Durban South Africa, tennis star (1993 Futures-Midland MI) |
1961-03-04 |
Roger Wessels, Port Elizabeth South Africa, golfer (1994 Canadian Masters) |
1961-03-19 |
Micki Pistorius, Moses Sithole: The South African Strangler |
1961-06-05 |
Mary Kay Bergman, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1961-12-04 |
Neale Joudrie, Due South |
1962-01-22 |
Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor |
1962-05-16 |
Jacek Januszyk, South by North |
1962-06-10 |
Eric Dawson, Due South |
1962-06-16 |
Arnold Vosloo, South African actor |
1962-08-03 |
Lucky Dube, South African reggae singer |
1962-08-20 |
Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player |
1962-10-23 |
Christo van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star |
1962-10-30 |
Courtney Walsh, South Africa vs Australia: 5th One Day International |
1962-11-26 |
John Samuel Inman, Greensboro NC, PGA golfer (1993 Buick South Open) |
1962-12-08 |
Steve Elkington, Inverell New South Wales, Australian golfer (1995 PGA Championship) |
1962-12-16 |
Jon Tenney, actor (Brooklyn South) |
1962-12-23 |
Kang Je-gyu, South Korean film director |
1962-9-02 |
Tracy Smothers, IWA Mid South: Point Proven |
1963-01-03 |
Ashley Chinner, Cape Town South Africa, golfer (1992 CGIA Canadian Tour) |
1963-01-15 |
Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer (South Pole) |
1963-02-13 |
Duane Powell, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1963-03-15 |
Ralf Mosig, South of Pico |
1963-04-13 |
Colin Bowman, The South Bank Show |
1963-08-03 |
Steven Jaquith, 2612 South Ave. West |
1963-10-14 |
Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer |
1963-12-22 |
Bryan McMillan, cricketer (brilliant South African all-rounder since 1992) |
1963-9-29 |
Les Claypool, South Park |
1963-9-30 |
David Barbe, Drive by Truckers: Dirty South Live @ 40 Watt |
1964-01-24 |
Ronnie McCann, Evander South Africa, Nike golfer (1993 Hawkeye-37th) |
1964-10-12 |
Fanie De Villers, cricketer (great South African pace bowler 1993- ) |
1964-11-29 |
Perry Parker, South Laguna Beach California, golfer (1992 Xerox BC Open) |
1964-12-24 |
Gary Muller, South Africa, tennis star |
1965-02-01 |
David Callaghan, cricketer (South African all-rounder in one-dayers 1992) |
1965-02-15 |
Craig Matthews, cricket pace bowler (South African Test) |
1965-02-19 |
John Commins, cricketer (South African Test batsman v NZ 1994-95) |
1965-03-06 |
Tom Chase, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 1 |
1965-03-17 |
Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player |
1965-04-03 |
Nazia Hassan, South Asian pop singer (d.2000) |
1965-04-24 |
Son Chang Min, South Korean actor |
1965-07-01 |
Jose Brown, South Park |
1965-10-25 |
Charles Scaggs, IWA Mid South: 500th Show |
1965-11-24 |
Kim Roe-ha, South Korean actor |
1965-12-30 |
Lukasz Karwowski, South by North |
1966-01-07 |
Corrie Sanders, Pretoria, South Africa, boxer, (WBO heavyweight champion, 2003), (d. 2012) |
1966-03-01 |
LaRita Shelby, South Central |
1966-03-14 |
Tertius Bosch, cricketer (South African pace bowler 1992) |
1966-03-17 |
Andrew Hudson, cricketer (South Africa, 163 on debut vs WI 1992) |
1966-04-06 |
Young Man Kang, South Korean film director |
1966-05-26 |
Zola Budd Pieterse, Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Oly-1988) |
1966-06-22 |
Meyrick Pringle, cricket pace bowler (South African) |
1966-07-16 |
Warren Sallenback, South Surrey BC, cyclist (Olympics-96) |
1966-08-18 |
Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress |
1966-09-04 |
Debra Lewin, South Burlington Vermont, Miss Vermont-America (1991) |
1966-10-10 |
Elana Meyer, [van Zyl], South Africa, runner (Olympics-silver-92) |
1966-10-20 |
Allan Donald, cricketer (great South African fast bowler) |
1966-11-02 |
Rosalyn Fairbank, South Africa, tennis player |
1966-12-02 |
Clive Eksteen, cricketer (South African slow left-armer 1993) |
1967-01-02 |
Francois Pienaar, Vereeniging Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province), South African rugby player and captain of the Springboks |
1967-01-17 |
Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor |
1967-01-24 |
Shannon Butler, South Lake Tahoe California, 10k runner |
1967-03-04 |
Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer (batsman Warne's bunny) |
1967-04-03 |
Madison McKoy, South Pacific |
1967-06-30 |
Rudi Steyn, cricketer (South African opening batsman 1995) |
1967-08-08 |
Ben Fouchee, Kuruman South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1987 S Afr Amateur) |
1967-11-23 |
Gary Kirsten, cricketer (South African lefty opening batsman 1993-) |
1967-12-19 |
Doug Johns, South Bend IN, pitcher (Oakland A's) |
1968-01-02 |
Chris Spencer, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1968-03-04 |
Dinky van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star |
1968-03-08 |
Clare Wood, Zululand South Africa, tennis star (1986 Futures-Lisbon) |
1968-03-09 |
Michael Golden, Bikini Summer III: South Beach Heat |
1968-04-03 |
Mike Lansing, Adidas Golden South Classic 2011 (Live Internet Broadcast) |
1968-04-07 |
Catalijn Willemsen, South |
1968-05-01 |
Sol Kyung-gu, South Korean actor |
1968-05-05 |
Tim Neilsen, cricket wicket-keeper (South Australian 1991) |
1968-06-15 |
Oh Dal-su, South Korean actor |
1968-06-24 |
Frank C. Agnone II, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1968-07-27 |
Julian McMahon, Sydney, New South Wales, Australian actor (Nip/Tuck, Profiler) |
1968-08-18 |
Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress |
1968-11-01 |
Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor |
1968-12-02 |
Elna Reinach, Pretoria South Africa, tennis star |
1968-12-24 |
Joe Scuderi, cricketer (South Australian all-rounder) |
1969-01-29 |
Linda Bogle, Soccer: South of the Umbilo |
1969-05-26 |
Musetta Vander, South African actress |
1969-06-24 |
Thabo Mngomeni, Cape Town, South African football player |
1969-07-26 |
Jonty Rhodes, South African cricket batsman (brilliant fielder) |
1969-07-30 |
Errol Stewart, South African cricket wicket-keeper (limited-over 1993) |
1969-09-25 |
Hansie Cronje, cricket captain (solid South African batsman) |
1969-10-17 |
Theodore Ernest Els, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Open) |
1969-10-19 |
Trey Parker, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1969-10-24 |
Toddy Walters, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1969-10-26 |
Mike Pritchard, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks) |
1969-11-07 |
Eric Presley, South of Pico |
1969-9-13 |
Keith Murray, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1970-03-11 |
Brett Liddle, Boksburg South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle) |
1970-04-08 |
Elisabetta Burranca, Welcome to the South |
1970-05-19 |
Choi Kyung-Ju, South Korean professional golfer |
1970-07-12 |
Brian Lee Byung-Hun, South Korean actor |
1970-08-04 |
Steven Jack, cricketer (South African pace bowler 1994-95) |
1970-08-26 |
Brett Schultz, cricket pace bowler (South African Test) |
1970-09-01 |
Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor |
1970-10-01 |
Gam Wu-seong, South Korean actor |
1970-10-05 |
South Park Mexican, American rapper |
1970-10-09 |
Park Sang-min, South Korean actor |
1970-11-29 |
Ghislain Bergevin, 2612 South Ave. West |
1970-9-01 |
Alex Murray-Leslie, Our Island in the South Pacific |
1971-01-31 |
Lee Young Ae, South Korean actress |
1971-02-03 |
Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor |
1971-02-15 |
Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer (1989 winner SA Champ) |
1971-02-23 |
Jeong Chan, South Korean actor |
1971-05-01 |
Jamie Marie Swenson, Miss USA-South Dakota (1997) |
1971-05-26 |
Matt Stone, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1971-06-25 |
Michael Tucker, South Boston VA, outfielder (KC Royals) |
1971-07-20 |
William Deering Jr, South Bend Indiana, pole vaulter |
1971-07-23 |
Dalvin DeGrate, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1971-08-06 |
Craig Ball, South Pacific |
1971-08-17 |
Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress |
1971-09-15 |
Wayne Ferreira, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star (Munich 1995) |
1971-10-04 |
Fernando Quiñones, Kings of South Beach |
1971-10-12 |
Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor, composer and singer |
1971-10-22 |
Amanda Coetzer, Hoopstad South Africa, tennis star (1996 Aust semi) |
1971-10-30 |
Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer |
1971-9-28 |
P.H. O'Brien, 6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park |
1972-01-03 |
Yoon Chan, South Korean actor |
1972-03-07 |
Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and musician |
1972-03-15 |
Casey Cristin Mizell, Miss USA-South Carolina (1997) |
1972-07-28 |
Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress |
1972-08-27 |
Chris Imes, South Paris Maine, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994) |
1972-08-29 |
Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor |
1972-09-03 |
Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress |
1972-10-24 |
Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress |
1972-11-10 |
Carol Anne Becker, Miss Universe-South Africa (1996) |
1972-12-18 |
Marcos Ondruska, South Africa, tennis star |
1973-01-20 |
Josh Weston, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 1 |
1973-01-24 |
Pirjo Määttä, The Hijack That Went South |
1973-02-01 |
Óscar Pérez Rojas, Group A: South Africa vs Mexico |
1973-03-20 |
Nico Boje, cricketer (South African ODI left-arm spinner 1996) |
1973-03-20 |
Jung Woo-sung, South Korean actor |
1973-04-05 |
April D. Patrick, Uptown Hall: The Harlem South Africa Connection - Going Home |
1973-05-09 |
Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress |
1973-05-20 |
Eleonora Benfatto, South Kensington |
1973-05-20 |
Duy Nguyen, South Kensington |
1973-06-07 |
Song Yun-ah, South Korean model and actress |
1973-06-14 |
Daniel Marsh, cricketer (son of Rod South Aust slow lefty since 1993) |
1973-06-24 |
Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor |
1973-07-05 |
Joe, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
1973-07-16 |
Shaun Pollock, cricketer (son of Peter South African Test quick 1995-) |
1973-08-01 |
Ben Johnson, cricketer (promising South Australian opening batsman) |
1973-09-03 |
Joanette Kruger, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star |
1973-09-18 |
Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur |
1973-11-07 |
Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress |
1973-12-15 |
Ryu Seung-wan, South Korean actor and director |
1974-01-09 |
Craig Wishart, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman vs South Africa 1995) |
1974-01-27 |
ZP Theart, South African-born English singer (Dragonforce) |
1974-02-07 |
Steve Nash, Johannesburg South Africa, Canadian NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, LA Lakers) |
1974-02-23 |
Herschelle Gibbs, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1996) |
1974-03-03 |
Chris 'Crispy' Brion, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1974-03-09 |
Mark Harrity, cricketer (promising South Aust left-arm fast bowler) |
1974-04-01 |
Andrey Sokolov, To the South of North |
1974-04-05 |
Uhm Tae Woong, South Korean actor |
1974-04-12 |
Jack Shih, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
1974-06-14 |
Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress |
1974-06-30 |
Hezekiel Sepeng, Potchefstroom South Africa, South African athlete |
1974-07-02 |
Moon So-ri, South Korean actress |
1974-07-25 |
Lysa Jackson, Miss South Carolina USA (1996) |
1974-09-22 |
Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer and actress |
1974-10-10 |
Naike Rivelli, Welcome to the South |
1974-11-01 |
V V S Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v South Africa 1996- ) |
1974-12-07 |
Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist |
1974-12-13 |
Bastiaan Driessen, South |
1974-9-25 |
Sebastian Cole, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 1 |
1975-02-17 |
Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress |
1975-03-04 |
Kim Jung-Eun, South Korean actress |
1975-03-23 |
Alysson Chiodi, South Bronx Heroes |
1975-04-06 |
Zach Braff, South Orange, New Jersey, American actor (Dr. John Dorian-Scrubs) |
1975-05-23 |
Kim Sung-soo, South Korean actor |
1975-05-26 |
Lauryn Hill, South Orange New Jersey, American singer-songwriter (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill) |
1975-05-28 |
Caresa Winters, Miss South Dakota USA (1996) |
1975-06-11 |
Choi Ji Woo, South Korean actress and model |
1975-07-23 |
Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress |
1975-08-07 |
Charlize Theron, Transvaal, South Africa, actress (The Cider House Rules, Monster) |
1975-08-22 |
Mbali Gasa, Miss South Africa Universe (1997) |
1975-09-08 |
Lee Eul-Yong, South Korean footballer |
1975-10-16 |
Jacques Kallis, cricketer (South African Test all-rounder v England 1995) |
1975-11-21 |
Edna de Jesus, Kings of South Beach |
1975-11-26 |
Jack Ryan, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 1 |
1975-11-29 |
Jim South Jr., Porn |
1976-02-22 |
Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player |
1976-03-25 |
Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor |
1976-03-25 |
Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer |
1976-04-02 |
Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer |
1976-04-13 |
Yu Ji-tae, South Korean actor |
1976-05-09 |
Jug Bebler, Journey to the South |
1976-07-06 |
Mike Zent, From the South to the Stars |
1976-08-05 |
Kwon Sang-woo, South Korean actor |
1976-08-20 |
Mart van Genugten, South |
1976-09-06 |
Hyun Young, South Korean actress and pop singer |
1976-10-05 |
Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor |
1976-10-15 |
Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer |
1976-10-22 |
Musa Bakeer, South Central |
1976-11-03 |
Guillermo Franco, Group A: South Africa vs Mexico |
1976-11-18 |
Brad Eric Johnson, New Port South |
1976-11-27 |
Jean Grae, South African-born rapper |
1976-12-03 |
Mark Boucher, South African cricketer |
1977-01-03 |
Anthony Sant'Anselmo, South Park: Kyle Sucks Cartman's Balls - The Trilogy |
1977-01-12 |
Sara Walsh, South Bend In, fencer-foil (Olympics-96) |
1977-02-14 |
Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (d. 2007) |
1977-02-27 |
Ji Sung, South Korean actor |
1977-03-12 |
Drew Glick, The 2008 South Coast Indie Gathering |
1977-05-05 |
Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress |
1977-05-09 |
Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress |
1977-05-11 |
Victor Matfield, South African rugby union footballer |
1977-05-21 |
Quinton Fortune, South African footballer |
1977-07-06 |
Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer |
1977-07-15 |
Andre Nel, South African Cricketer |
1977-07-30 |
Jayme Dickman, South Bend Ind, 3x20 rifle (Olympics-1996) |
1977-08-12 |
Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer |
1977-09-09 |
Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer |
1977-09-29 |
Won Bin, South Korean actor |
1977-11-04 |
So Ji-sub, South Korean swimmer, model and actor |
1977-11-12 |
Benni McCarthy, South African footballer |
1977-11-17 |
Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer |
1977-12-02 |
Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer plays for Aalborg BK |
1977-12-17 |
Christian Coleman, South Central |
1977-12-25 |
Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress |
1978-01-03 |
Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress |
1978-02-20 |
Jeremy Jordan, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 1 |
1978-02-21 |
Park Eun-hye, South Korean actress |
1978-02-21 |
Kim Ha Neul, South Korean actress |
1978-03-30 |
Wendy Christina Roberts, Miss South Carolina Teen USA (1996) |
1978-04-03 |
John Smit, South African rugby player |
1978-05-14 |
Valentina Lodovini, Welcome to the South |
1978-07-25 |
Caroline Nicole Brigman, Miss South Carolina Teen USA (1997) |
1978-10-04 |
Ko Soo, South Korean television and movie actor |
1978-12-05 |
Ava Leigh Stewart, South of Southern |
1979-01-08 |
Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer |
1979-02-14 |
Jason Hawke, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 2 |
1979-02-22 |
Lee Na-young, South Korean actress |
1979-03-28 |
Juli Keech, Miss South Dakota Teen USA (1997) |
1979-03-28 |
Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress |
1979-04-04 |
Rebecca Stoyel, South Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96) |
1979-05-10 |
Lee Hyori, South Korean singer |
1979-05-13 |
Brian Leavell, South Down Orchard |
1979-05-22 |
Ned Record, The South's Last Rebel |
1979-06-19 |
Jason Tyler, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 1 |
1979-06-27 |
Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean actress |
1979-06-28 |
Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer |
1979-07-24 |
Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress |
1979-08-04 |
Robin Peterson, South African cricketer |
1979-08-08 |
Eric Inman, South of Heaven |
1979-10-10 |
Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T. |
1979-10-11 |
Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress |
1979-12-16 |
Trevor Immelman, South African golfer |
1979-9-03 |
Jimmy McGuire, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 2 |
1979-9-14 |
Leigh Boone, 'South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall |
1980-01-15 |
Jessie Winn, North and South |
1980-03-04 |
Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007) |
1980-03-13 |
Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress |
1980-03-20 |
Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer |
1980-03-29 |
Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress |
1980-04-05 |
Lee Jae Won, South Korean actor, singer, and rapper |
1980-04-17 |
Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player |
1980-05-09 |
Tatewin Means, Miss South Dakota Teen USA (1996) |
1980-05-09 |
Cho Hyeon Jae, South Korean actor |
1980-05-25 |
Jae Hee, South Korean actor |
1980-07-03 |
Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer |
1980-07-26 |
Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor |
1980-08-09 |
Ryu Seung-beom, South Korean actor |
1980-09-13 |
Han Chae Young, South Korean actress |
1980-09-21 |
Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver |
1980-10-30 |
Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer |
1980-11-02 |
Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress |
1980-11-25 |
Aaron Mokoena, South African soccer player |
1980-11-25 |
Aaron Mokoena, Group A: South Africa vs Mexico |
1980-9-10 |
William Mueller, IWA Mid South: Gory Days 4 - Home Sweet Home |
1981-01-18 |
Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor |
1981-02-01 |
Graeme Smith, South African cricketer |
1981-02-18 |
Kim Jae Won, South Korean actor |
1981-02-25 |
Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer |
1981-03-03 |
Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress |
1981-03-03 |
Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress |
1981-03-19 |
Kim Rae Won, South Korean actor and model |
1981-03-23 |
Jennifer Steffin, North and South, Book II |
1981-06-11 |
Robert M. Neilson, South of No North |
1981-07-12 |
Adrienne Camp, South African singer/songwriter |
1981-07-22 |
William Ramos Jr., South of the Border: Part Uno |
1981-07-28 |
Jo In Sung, South Korean actor |
1981-07-30 |
Juan Smith, South African rugby player |
1981-08-15 |
Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress |
1981-10-27 |
Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress |
1981-10-30 |
Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress |
1981-11-06 |
Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor |
1981-9-13 |
Tommy Brandt, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 1 |
1982-01-04 |
Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress |
1982-01-11 |
Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress |
1982-02-02 |
Han Ga In, South Korean model/actress |
1982-02-26 |
Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model and actress |
1982-02-28 |
Vince Ditonno, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 1 |
1982-03-17 |
Steven Pienaar, South African footballer |
1982-04-17 |
Lee Jun Ki, South Korean actor and model |
1982-06-15 |
Zach Heffner, When the Man Went South |
1982-07-13 |
Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player |
1982-07-25 |
Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer |
1982-09-11 |
Shriya Saran, South Indian actress |
1982-09-25 |
Hyun Bin, South Korean actor |
1982-11-16 |
Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player |
1983-02-02 |
Will South, Thirteen Senses frontman |
1983-02-03 |
Silambarasan Rajendar, famous south Indian actor |
1983-04-13 |
Schalk Burger, South African rugby player |
1983-05-07 |
Lesley Nadwodnik, The South Side Chapter |
1983-06-12 |
Bryan Habana, South African rugby player |
1983-06-27 |
Dale Steyn, South African cricketer |
1983-07-06 |
Serena South, Cafe Flesh 3 |
1983-10-09 |
Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter |
1983-10-25 |
Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress |
1983-10-26 |
Luke Watson, South African rugby player |
1983-11-16 |
K, South Korean singer |
1984-02-10 |
Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress |
1984-02-17 |
AB de Villiers, South African cricketer |
1984-04-05 |
Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress |
1984-04-19 |
Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress |
1984-05-03 |
Nam Sang-mi, South Korean actress and model |
1984-05-16 |
Mickie Knuckles, IWA Mid South: 500th Show |
1984-06-08 |
Daniel Hooven, Old South Pittsburg Hospital |
1984-06-29 |
Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model |
1984-08-21 |
Neil Dexter, South African cricketer |
1984-08-31 |
Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer |
1984-10-03 |
Yoon Eun Hye, South Korean actress |
1984-11-12 |
Sandara Park, South Korean actor |
1984-11-17 |
Park Han-byul, South Korean actress |
1984-12-07 |
Tyler Gowman, South of Wawa |
1985-01-05 |
Yoon So-Yi, South Korean actress |
1985-01-17 |
Kang-In, South Korean singer/dancer/actor/MC/DJ(Super Junior) |
1985-02-13 |
Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress |
1985-11-23 |
Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater |
1986-01-22 |
Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model |
1986-01-30 |
C. Lo, Fuckin' Around in South Beach 3 |
1986-03-29 |
Samantha South, A2m 9 |
1986-07-12 |
JP Pietersen, South African rugby union footballer |
1986-09-11 |
Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player |
1986-11-04 |
Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver |
1986-11-22 |
Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete |
1986-12-29 |
Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model |
1986-9-14 |
Jessie Electra, Fuckin' Around in South Beach 3 |
1987-05-06 |
Moon Geun-young, South Korean actress |
1987-05-14 |
Francois Steyn, South African rugby union footballer |
1988-02-22 |
Efraín Juárez, Group A: South Africa vs Mexico |
1988-04-12 |
Stephen Brogan, South Yorkshire: Mark |
1988-07-12 |
Inbee Park, South Korean golfer |
1988-9-15 |
Sophia Young, On the Road: South Beach |
1989-03-01 |
Carlos Vela, Group A: South Africa vs Mexico |
1989-03-27 |
Caite Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina |
1989-09-27 |
Park Tae-Hwan, South Korean swimmer |
1990-06-04 |
Jade Kennedy, Fuckin' Around in South Beach 5 |
1990-08-06 |
Vardi Fivaz, The South African Story |
1991-11-10 |
Inseong Cho, South Korean actor |
1991-12-24 |
Louis Tomlinson, Doncaster South Yorkshire, British pop singer (One Direction) |
1992-08-10 |
Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress |
1993-03-11 |
Soane Prescott, When the Man Went South |
1996-02-17 |
Sasha Pieterse, South African child actress |
South - Notable Weddings
South - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1827-01-17 |
Religious leader Joseph Smith Jr (21) weds church group movement leader Emma Smith (22) in South Bainbridge, New York |
1926-10-19 |
Pathologist Howard Florey (28) weds Ethel Reed at Holy Trinity Church in Paddington, New South Wales |
1931-08-22 |
FBI agent Melvin Purvis (27) weds childhood sweetheart Marie Rosanne Willcox at St. John's Episcopal Church in Florence, South Carolina |
1934-10-08 |
South Korean President Syngman Rhee (59) weds Francesca Donner (34) |
1940-01-02 |
Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer, linguist and academic and outspoken critic of the South African National Party government's Bantu Education policy, marries Priscilla Phyllis Ntantla. |
1949-01-18 |
South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer |
1956-10-06 |
South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan |
1969-04-11 |
South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse |
1970-10-22 |
Singer James Brown (37) weds Deidre Jenkins in Barnwell, South Carolina |
1980-06-07 |
Actor Mel Gibson (24) weds Robyn Moore (24) in Forestville, New South Wales |
1983-12-15 |
Author Roald Dahl (36) weds Liccy Crosland (45) at Brixton Town Hall in South London |
1985-08-15 |
Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa |
1987-01-03 |
Tennis player champ Mats Wilander (22) weds model Sonya Mulholland in South Africa |
1989-04-15 |
South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries |
1990-05-05 |
"Crocodile Dundee" actors Paul Hogan (50) weds Linda Kozlowski (32) at their newly built $3 million mansion at Faraway Possum Creek in New South Wales, Australia |
1996-03-24 |
Former Atlanta mayor and UN ambassador Andrew Young (64) weds Carolyn Watson (49) in South Africa |
1996-04-12 |
Actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper (60) weds actress Victoria Duffy (29) at Boston's Old South Church |
1997-12-29 |
Actress Cate Blanchett (28) weds screenwriter Andrew Upton (31) at Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales, Australia |
1999-06-05 |
Actress Reese Witherspoon (23) weds actor Ryan Phillippe (24) at the Old Wide Awake Plantation along the Sono River in Charleston, South Carolina |
2003-04-07 |
Academy Award "Gladiator" actor Russell Crowe (39) weds singer Danielle Spencer (32) at his 560-acre cattle farm in Nana Glen, New South Wales, Australia |
2005-12-10 |
Rugby Star Clyde Rathbone (24) weds Carrie-Ann Leeson in South Africa |
2005-12-17 |
Australian country singer Kasey Chambers (29) weds singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson in Avoca, New South Wales |
2006-04-08 |
Spanish model and actress Ines Sastre (32) weds Alexandro Corrias at Brompton Oratory in South Kensington, London |
2008-03-29 |
Biggest Loser contestant Amy Hildreth (28) weds Marty Wolff (27) in Charleston, South Carolina |
2010-10-10 |
Actress and singer Alexa Vega (22) weds film producer Sean Covel (34) at the historical Homestake Opera House in South Dakota |
2010-11-18 |
Cricketer Glenn McGrath (40) weds interior designer Sara Leonardi in Cronulla, New South Wales |
2011-10-29 |
Actress Eva Amurri (26) weds former Major League Soccer player Kyle Martino (31) in Charleston, South Carolina |
2012-09-09 |
"Gossip Girl" actress Blake Lively (25) weds "Green Lantern" actor Ryan Reynolds (35) at Boone Hall in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina |
2013-07-01 |
Canadian singer Avril Lavigne (28) weds Canadian singer Chad Kroeger (38) at the Château de La Napoule, a reconstructed medieval castle on the Mediterranean Sea in the South of France. |
South - Notable Deaths
South - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1298-03-14 |
Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies |
1444-04-26 |
Robert Campin, South Neth painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65 |
1556-03-19 |
Lieven van der Maude, [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70 |
1569-09-05 |
Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44 |
1580-11-09 |
Gaspar Schetz, South Neth, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67 |
1584-08-04 |
John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71 |
1598-06-28 |
Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer, dies at 71 |
1649-10-24 |
Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Neth diplomat, dies at about 89 |
1655-06-30 |
Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81 |
1668-11-16 |
Antoon Anselmo, South Netherlands lawyer, dies at about 79 |
1669-05-24 |
Pieter Cuypers, South Neth lawyer, dies at 48 |
1669-11-20 |
Arnold Geulincx, South Neth philosopher (Cholera), dies at 45 |
1707-05-03 |
Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53 |
1716-07-08 |
Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634) |
1723-04-10 |
Claude F Tserclaes, South Neth earl of Tilly, dies at 74 |
1780-07-04 |
Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Neth, dies at 67 |
1783-05-03 |
Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49 |
1784-01-01 |
Patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67 |
1784-07-15 |
Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies |
1814-08-31 |
Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738) |
1823-01-05 |
Major George Johnston, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764) |
1828-09-22 |
Shaka, South African Zulu king, dies |
1830-12-17 |
Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Santa Marta, Colombia |
1836-03-06 |
James Butler Bonham, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1807) |
1838-04-11 |
Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40 |
1846-09-23 |
John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818) |
1848-12-19 |
Adam FJA van Duyn, governor of South Holland, dies at 77 |
1850-06-16 |
William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774) |
1850-08-17 |
Jose de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero and general, dies at 72 |
1851-03-11 |
George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790) |
1852-12-16 |
Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59 |
1867-01-11 |
Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812) |
1881-07-19 |
Isaac Baumann, a Jewish pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, South Africa, dies at 67 |
1884-08-14 |
Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46 |
1890-05-19 |
Gus Kempis, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies of fever at 24 |
1892-01-02 |
Frederick William Barber, South African frontiersman and scientist, dies at 78 |
1892-02-16 |
Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies |
1892-02-19 |
Monty Bowden, cricket captain (England v South Africa 1889), dies at 26 |
1893-06-23 |
Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817) |
1893-07-09 |
George Christopher Cato, Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban South Africa, dies at 79 |
1895-04-19 |
Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70 |
1897-10-28 |
Hercules Robinson, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72 |
1898-11-02 |
George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826) |
1899-11-28 |
Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19 |
1899-12-11 |
Andrew Wauchope, British Major-General, dies in Battle of Magersfontein in the Boer war, South Africa. Another British Major, The Marquess of Winchester also killed. |
1900-02-16 |
George Labram, US mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle |
1900-03-27 |
Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69 |
1900-03-31 |
Frank Milligan, cricketer (Mafeking 2 Tests Eng v South Africa 1898-99), dies |
1900-04-05 |
Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle |
1901-05-19 |
Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Rep South-Africa, dies at 81 |
1901-10-30 |
... Opperman, South African Boer general (Spy), killed in battle |
1901-12-01 |
George Lohmann, cricketer (in South Africa 18 Tests, 112 wickets), dies |
1902-01-17 |
Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed |
1902-04-11 |
... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle |
1904-07-14 |
President Paul Kruger, the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899—1902), heart failure at 78 |
1906-03-23 |
Victor Barton, cricketer (scored 23 in Test Eng v South Africa 1892), dies |
1907-01-14 |
Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832) |
1908-05-31 |
C L "Boy" Johnson, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies |
1908-07-03 |
Joel Chandler Harris, Song of the South |
1909-07-10 |
Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies |
1911-02-04 |
Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75 |
1911-02-18 |
Bill Murdoch, cricketer, dies while watching Aust v South Africa Test |
1911-11-23 |
Bernard Tancred, cricketer (87 runs in 1888-89 South Africa v England), dies |
1913-02-28 |
Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic) |
1913-12-31 |
Henry Fragson, South Solitary |
1914-07-14 |
Alice Charbonnet Kellerman, Venus of the South Seas |
1916-08-01 |
Claude Newberry, South African cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies |
1917-03-18 |
William Shalders, South African cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies |
1917-07-31 |
Charlie Finlason, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies |
1917-09-12 |
Eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test South Africa v England 1914), dies |
1917-11-19 |
Basil Grieve, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests England v South Africa 1889), dies |
1918-10-17 |
Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb South African batsman 1905-12), dies |
1918-11-18 |
Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies |
1919-02-17 |
Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the New South Wales Lancers |
1919-08-27 |
Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies at 56 |
1919-09-27 |
Robert Gleeson, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies |
1919-10-02 |
Ernest Halliwell, cricketer (South African wicketkeeper 1892-1904), dies |
1920-12-12 |
Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75 |
1922-01-05 |
Ernest H Shackleton, Brit South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47 |
1922-01-05 |
Ernest Shackleton, South |
1922-02-03 |
Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67 |
1924-10-05 |
Tom Campbell, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, ct 7 stp 1), dies |
1927-05-09 |
Tommy Routledge, cricketer (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies |
1928-09-25 |
Karl Schneider, cricketer (South Aust bat), dies of leukaemia at 23 |
1928-12-21 |
Harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper v South Africa 1895-96), dies |
1929-10-21 |
Owen Dunell, cricketer (two Tests for South Africa in 1889), dies |
1929-11-09 |
Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies |
1929-12-09 |
Willis Cuttell, cricketer (two Tests England v South Africa 1899), dies |
1930-07-14 |
W H Ashley, cricketer (Test South Africa, 7 wkts), dies |
1931-07-07 |
Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, cricketer (South Africa 1902-07), dies |
1932-01-09 |
Frederick O'Brien, White Shadows in the South Seas |
1932-03-14 |
George Eastman, Cannibals of the South Seas |
1932-06-05 |
Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies |
1932-06-19 |
Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies |
1934-07-07 |
Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23), dies |
1934-07-28 |
Louis Tancred, cricketer (fourteen Tests batting for South Africa 1905-14), dies |
1934-08-05 |
Neville Quinn, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa), dies at 26 |
1935-02-07 |
Herbert G. Ponting, 90° South |
1935-09-29 |
Winifred Holtby, South Riding |
1935-10-11 |
Frank Mitchell, cricketer (2 Tests for Eng then 3 for South Africa), dies |
1935-11-02 |
H B "Jock" Cameron, South African cricket captain (v England 1935, age 30), dies |
1935-12-13 |
John Nicolson, cricketer (South African lefty batsman 1926-27), dies |
1936-01-10 |
Charles Wright, cricketer (3 Tests England v South Africa 1895-96), dies |
1936-02-16 |
Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted |
1938-07-14 |
Robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa in 1895-96 series), dies |
1938-11-15 |
George Glover, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies |
1939-01-31 |
George Thornton, cricketer (1 Test for South Africa 1902, 1* & 1-20), dies |
1939-08-19 |
Frank Wild, South |
1939-10-21 |
Nummy Deane, cricketer (628 runs in 17 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1940-07-03 |
George Shepstone, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1896-99), dies |
1940-12-06 |
Charlie Hime, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895), dies |
1941-04-22 |
Arthur Briscoe, cricketer (South African batsman in 2 Tests), dies |
1941-08-09 |
Raymond Wells, The Lure of the South Seas |
1941-12-01 |
Horace Chapman, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa, 39 runs, 1 wkt), dies |
1942-11-21 |
J. B. M. Hertzog [Barry Hertzog], South African Premier (1914-39), dies at 76 |
1942-11-27 |
A B C Langton, cricketer (WWII 15 Tests for South Africa 1935-39), dies |
1943-07-17 |
Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-general of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943), dies at 72 |
1943-09-28 |
Charles Vintcent, cricketer (played in South Africa's 1st 3 tests), dies |
1944-04-13 |
Cécile Chaminade, Goin' South |
1944-05-26 |
C M Francois, cricketer (WWII, 252 runs in 5 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1945-02-16 |
Billy Frank, cricketer (Test South Africa v Eng 1896, 5 & 2, 1-52), dies |
1945-07-20 |
Arthur Seccull, South African cricketer (Test v England 1896), dies |
1945-11-05 |
Thomas B. Middleton, South Sea Adventures |
1946-08-09 |
A E E Vogler, cricketer (South Africa, 15 Tests, 64 wkts), dies |
1946-11-22 |
Bertie Rose-Innes, cricketer (South Africa's Test), dies |
1947-03-26 |
Arthur T. Walden, With Byrd at the South Pole |
1947-04-12 |
Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies |
1947-07-16 |
Horatio Mbelle, South African interpreter, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria at 77 |
1948-02-02 |
Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894) |
1948-03-05 |
Charles Prince, cricketer (5 & 1 in only Test for South Africa), dies |
1948-07-03 |
Quintin McMillan, cricketer (13 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1948-07-08 |
Dave Nourse, cricketer (45 Tests for South Africa 1902-24), dies |
1948-07-09 |
James Baskett, Song of the South |
1948-07-26 |
Charles Mills, South African cricketer (Test v England 1891-92), dies |
1948-09-11 |
Albert Powell, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898-99), dies |
1949-06-10 |
Fern Foster, McVeagh of the South Seas |
1950-01-02 |
James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877) |
1950-01-12 |
Bill Bambridge, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas |
1950-09-11 |
John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African PM (1919..48), dies at 80 |
1950-09-29 |
Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer, dies |
1951-04-27 |
Philip Albert Myburgh Hands, cricketer (7 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1952-05-16 |
Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v South Africa 1892), dies |
1952-07-31 |
N B F "Tufty" Mann, cricketer (South African slow lefty 1947-51), dies |
1952-11-08 |
Claude Carter, cricketer (took 28 wkts 10 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1953-02-17 |
Holger Sjöberg, South of the Highway |
1953-06-30 |
Beatrice Grimshaw, Black Cargoes of the South Seas |
1953-07-01 |
Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies |
1953-09-12 |
Frederick Kuys, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898), dies |
1953-09-22 |
William Brann, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1953-11-08 |
John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66 |
1954-03-28 |
Francis B Young, Brit physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69 |
1954-06-24 |
William O'Leary, South Sea Woman |
1955-05-24 |
Ward Hamilton, South of St. Louis |
1956-07-27 |
J M M Commaille, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa 1910-28), dies |
1957-01-01 |
Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid. |
1957-03-11 |
Richard E. Byrd, With Byrd at the South Pole |
1957-05-28 |
Erik Rolf, Song of the South |
1957-07-09 |
Manfred Julius Susskind, South African cricketer (1924 Test series), dies |
1957-10-21 |
Joseph T. Rucker, With Byrd at the South Pole |
1958-05-25 |
Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1958-08-24 |
John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65 |
1958-11-18 |
Sivert Samuelson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1910), dies |
1958-12-03 |
Lou Meltzer, Bilko Goes South |
1959-02-07 |
Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84 |
1959-04-04 |
Stanley Snooke, cricketer (bro of S J, duck in South African Test), dies |
1959-12-14 |
Carl Kent, A Wind from the South |
1960-06-17 |
Pierre Reverdy, French author/poet (North-South), dies at 70 |
1960-09-26 |
William Ling, cricketer (South African batsman in 6 Tests 1921-23), dies |
1961-09-05 |
Ernest Bock, cricketer (Test for South Africa, 1935), dies |
1961-10-02 |
Reggie Spooner, cricketer (England centurion v South Africa 1912), dies |
1962-07-27 |
Harve Foster, Song of the South |
1962-10-08 |
Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer |
1963-05-20 |
Gene Holland, Song of the South |
1963-07-18 |
A H C Cooper, South African cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies |
1963-11-01 |
Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese PM, assassinated in a coup at 62 |
1963-11-02 |
Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62 |
1963-11-22 |
Claude Floquet, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies |
1964-02-20 |
R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies |
1964-06-07 |
Charlie Llewellyn, cricketer (544 runs in 15 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1964-07-12 |
William Solomon, South African cricketer (Test 1898-99), dies |
1964-09-15 |
Robert Dower, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies |
1965-07-01 |
Wally Hammond, South African cricketer (7,249 runs for England), dies |
1965-07-19 |
Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (1948-60), dies at 90 |
1965-08-27 |
Gerald Bond, cricketer (South Africa 1938-39), dies |
1965-11-14 |
George Bissett, cricketer (25 wickets in 4 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1966-04-12 |
Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed |
1966-08-14 |
S J "Tip" Snooke, South African cricket all-rounder (26 Tests 1905-23), dies |
1966-08-17 |
Archibald Palm, cricketer (Test South Africa v England 1927-28), dies |
1966-09-06 |
Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African PM (1958-66), assassinated at 64 |
1967-07-21 |
Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies |
1968-01-07 |
Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) |
1968-03-25 |
Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood |
1971-01-02 |
Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, South African trade unionist, dies at 62 |
1971-03-18 |
George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v South Africa 1924), dies |
1971-07-04 |
Joe Cox, cricketer (4 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1972-02-06 |
Julian H Steward, US anthropologist (South American), dies at 70 |
1972-09-22 |
Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary, dies at 53 |
1973-02-08 |
Herbie Taylor, cricketer (2936 runs in 42 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1974-01-21 |
Ken Viljoen, cricketer (played 27 Tests for South Africa 1930-47), dies |
1974-01-30 |
Bill Whitty, cricketer (37 wkts v South Africa 1910-11 series), dies |
1974-06-02 |
Waldemar F Eric Marx, cricketer (3 Tests South Africa v Aust 1921-22), dies |
1974-08-14 |
Raymond Budd, South African trade unionist |
1974-08-15 |
Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered |
1975-07-13 |
Owen Wynne, cricketer (6 Tests for South Africa 1948-50), lost at sea |
1976-04-26 |
Sid James, South African-born British comedian, dies at 62 |
1976-07-30 |
Emil Solomon "Solly" Sachs, South African socialist, dies in London |
1977-03-05 |
Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix |
1977-09-12 |
Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody |
1978-06-26 |
Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed |
1978-07-25 |
Hank Newman, South of the Chisholm Trail |
1978-11-13 |
George Hearne, South African cricketer (open bat in 3 Tests 1922-24), dies |
1979-07-07 |
D P Conyngham, cricketer (one Test for South Africa), dies |
1979-07-17 |
Doug Meintjes, South African cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies |
1979-10-06 |
Elizabeth Bishop, poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68 |
1979-10-26 |
Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated |
1980-03-23 |
Jacob Bursey, With Byrd at the South Pole |
1980-04-16 |
Nellie Duran, South of Pago Pago |
1980-06-10 |
Denys Morkel, South African cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies |
1980-11-22 |
Herbert Wade, cricketer (South African batsman & captain 1935-36), dies |
1980-11-23 |
Herby Wade, cricketer (South African capt 10 Tests 1935-36), dies |
1981-06-03 |
Eric Dalton, cricketer (698 runs for South Africa at 31 72), dies |
1981-08-14 |
Dudley Nourse, cricketer (34 Tests for South Africa, 2960 runs), dies |
1981-11-19 |
Griffiths Mxenge, South Afr's anti-apartheid advocate, murdered |
1982-02-05 |
Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide |
1982-02-10 |
Olov Wigren, South of the Highway |
1982-06-27 |
Jack Mullaney, South Pacific |
1982-07-16 |
Charles Robberts, The first State President of South Africa, dies at 88 |
1982-07-30 |
Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies |
1982-08-17 |
Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb |
1982-08-24 |
Jack Siedle, cricketer (batted in 18 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1982-08-28 |
G W A Chubb, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, 21 wickets), dies |
1982-11-17 |
Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer, legally declared dead |
1983-04-18 |
Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies |
1983-09-01 |
Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies |
1983-09-07 |
Henry Promnitz, cricketer (5-58 on debut for South Africa 1927-28), dies |
1983-09-10 |
Balthasar J "John" Vorster, South African premier (1966-78), dies at 67 |
1983-10-09 |
Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered |
1983-12-02 |
Atholl Mckinnon, cricketer (South African lefty spinner in 8 Tests), dies |
1984-02-13 |
Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946) |
1984-03-03 |
Ted Husserl, South Pacific |
1984-03-13 |
Dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Aust & AIF bat), dies |
1984-04-06 |
Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies |
1984-09-30 |
Ellsworth Bunker, US ambassador (South-Vietnam, dies at 90) |
1985-01-02 |
Moses Josiah Madiba, South African author and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies at 76 |
1985-01-11 |
Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891) |
1985-01-14 |
Darlene Engle, South Pacific |
1985-07-05 |
Jack Robertson, South African cricket spinner (3 Tests v Aust 1935-36), dies |
1985-08-02 |
Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies |
1985-10-18 |
Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30 |
1985-11-03 |
Kalle Bergholm, Pippi in the South Seas |
1986-05-09 |
Tex Brodus, South Pacific |
1986-07-28 |
Syd Curnow, South African cricketer (168 runs in 7 Tests), dies |
1987-01-19 |
Gerald Brenan, South from Granada |
1987-06-26 |
Glen Hall, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1965), commits suicide |
1987-07-25 |
Eric Mntonga, co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA), found on a dirt road a day after he had been detained at a police station |
1988-01-12 |
Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925) |
1988-04-24 |
E S "Bob" Newson, cricketer (South African fast bowler in 1930's), dies |
1988-08-27 |
Kathlyn Brox, Headin' South |
1989-05-01 |
David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered |
1989-05-22 |
Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953) |
1989-06-07 |
Don the Beachcomber, South Seas Adventure |
1990-02-28 |
Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer (batsman v England 1929), dies |
1990-03-12 |
Harry South, School for Sex |
1990-06-18 |
Dennis Dyer, cricketer (scored 96 3 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1990-06-28 |
Dudu Pukwana, Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa |
1990-07-18 |
Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897) |
1990-08-31 |
Johnny Lindsay, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1947), dies |
1991-06-17 |
Harry Bavaird, South Pacific |
1991-09-29 |
Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered |
1991-12-06 |
Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies |
1991-12-18 |
June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73 |
1992-01-23 |
Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to Pres De Klerk, dies |
1992-08-17 |
Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered |
1992-12-25 |
Helen B M Fennell Joseph, English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies at 87 |
1993-01-04 |
Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies |
1993-02-08 |
Douglas Heyes, North and South |
1993-04-10 |
Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50 |
1993-04-14 |
Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death |
1993-04-30 |
Eric Rowan, cricketer (26 Tests for South Africa), dies |
1993-06-14 |
Lorayne Brox, Headin' South |
1993-07-11 |
Denis Tomlinson, South African cricket leg-spinner, dies |
1993-08-25 |
Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26 |
1993-10-29 |
John Caler, South Pacific |
1993-12-03 |
Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula), dies at 40 |
1994-01-17 |
Chung Il Kwon, PM of South Korea (1964-70), dies |
1994-03-03 |
Bob Crisp, cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies |
1994-03-09 |
John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48 |
1994-04-18 |
Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32 |
1994-04-30 |
Burris Grimwood, South of St. Louis |
1994-05-09 |
Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924) |
1994-05-12 |
Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 22 wkts), dies |
1994-07-27 |
Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner & member of the Bang-Bang Club, suicide at 33 |
1994-08-27 |
Roberto Goyeneche, The South |
1994-10-22 |
Ben Kadish, South Pacific |
1994-11-08 |
Kay St. Germain Wells, How to See South America by Bus |
1994-11-22 |
Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies |
1994-12-24 |
Rossano Brazzi, South Pacific |
1994-12-26 |
Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Neth/South African economist/author, dies |
1995-01-03 |
Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74 |
1995-01-06 |
Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/sect-gen (SACR), dies at 68 |
1995-03-27 |
Freddie Baker, South Pacific |
1995-07-01 |
Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (leading Test scorer with 3471), dies |
1996-01-19 |
Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/South African activist, dies at 70 |
1996-03-23 |
Jules Schermer, Pickup on South Street |
1996-05-01 |
Luana Patten, Song of the South |
1996-06-12 |
Mary Field, Song of the South |
1996-10-13 |
Lenmana Guerin, South Pacific |
1996-11-14 |
Derek Marlowe, Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest |
1997-03-14 |
Sonia Wolfson, South Pacific |
1997-04-18 |
Georgia Schmidt, Goin' South |
1997-07-30 |
Bảo Đại, last Emperor of Vietnam (1926-45) and Chief of State of South Vietnam (1949-55), dies at 85 |
1997-10-16 |
James A. Michener, South Pacific |
1998-04-22 |
Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940) |
1998-05-07 |
Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924) |
1998-07-07 |
Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel, South African Security Police notorious for ordering the police to shoot at protesting school children in 1976, 70 |
1999-01-06 |
Walter Ledgerwood, South Pacific |
1999-01-26 |
Jonni Paris, South Pacific |
1999-05-02 |
Bobbe Brox, Headin' South |
1999-11-04 |
Malcolm Marshall, World Cup Match 17: South Africa vs West Indies |
1999-11-04 |
Niní Gambier, The South |
1999-11-11 |
Mary Kay Bergman, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
2000-01-30 |
Ila McAvoy, South Pacific |
2000-03-25 |
Helen Martin, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood |
2000-06-17 |
Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 1931) |
2000-08-14 |
Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929) |
2001-02-17 |
Joe Bailey, South Pacific |
2001-07-21 |
Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927) |
2001-08-19 |
Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933) |
2001-09-02 |
Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922) |
2001-09-29 |
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923) |
2002-01-12 |
Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911) |
2002-06-01 |
Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969) |
2002-08-14 |
John Coldren, South Pacific |
2003-02-04 |
Archie Savage, South Pacific |
2003-04-15 |
Maurice Rapf, Song of the South |
2003-05-05 |
Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912) |
2003-11-04 |
Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929) |
2003-12-30 |
David Bale, South African-born activist (b. 1941) |
2004-01-03 |
Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928) |
2004-04-19 |
Glenn Leedy, Song of the South |
2004-05-26 |
Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934) |
2004-06-22 |
Kim Sun-il, South Korean translator (b. 1970) |
2004-07-26 |
Sipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, lung cancer (birthdate unknown) |
2004-10-08 |
Linda Fontanette, South Central |
2004-12-26 |
Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African pediatric heart surgeon (b. 1959) |
2005-01-19 |
K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974) |
2005-03-16 |
Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927) |
2005-04-16 |
Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943) |
2005-12-06 |
Danny Williams, South African-born singer (b. 1942) |
2005-12-23 |
Norman D. Vaughan, With Byrd at the South Pole |
2006-01-06 |
Leonard J. South, Hang 'Em High |
2006-02-11 |
Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1943) |
2006-02-18 |
Ryan Hayes, South Wind |
2006-03-13 |
Megan Van Peebles, South Bronx Heroes |
2006-06-04 |
Peter Greenwell, Twenty Minutes South |
2006-06-25 |
Arif Mardin, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
2006-09-08 |
Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915) |
2006-10-23 |
Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977) |
2006-10-24 |
Eric Inman, South of Heaven |
2006-10-31 |
Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916) |
2006-12-16 |
Taliep Petersen, South African singer and composer (b. 1950) |
2007-01-01 |
Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943) |
2007-01-04 |
Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915) |
2007-01-09 |
Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977) |
2007-01-22 |
Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929) |
2007-01-31 |
Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929) |
2007-02-10 |
Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980) |
2007-03-18 |
Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer and Pakistan national coach (b. 1948) |
2007-10-18 |
Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964) |
2007-11-02 |
Henry Cele, South African Actor; best known for his onscreen portrayal of the legendary Shaka Zulu |
2008-01-03 |
Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer/former WBC light flyweight champion (b. 1972) |
2008-01-07 |
Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917) |
2008-01-25 |
Michael Spielberg, South Central |
2008-02-15 |
Ashley Callie, South African actress (b. 1976) |
2008-04-01 |
Floyd Simmons, South Pacific |
2008-04-04 |
Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (b. 1923) |
2008-04-17 |
Durwood Bloomgren, South Pacific |
2008-05-03 |
Monica Meyer, South Pacific |
2008-08-15 |
Vic Toweel, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion |
2008-10-02 |
Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (b. 1968) |
2008-10-06 |
Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985) |
2008-11-10 |
Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932) |
2008-11-19 |
Bobby Beers, South of Santa Fe |
2009-02-21 |
Warren Hsieh, South Pacific |
2009-03-07 |
Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982) |
2009-04-11 |
Leigh Boone, 'South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall |
2009-04-27 |
Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model (b. 1983) |
2009-05-17 |
Jung Seung-hye, South Korean film producer (b. 1965) |
2009-08-18 |
Kim Dae-jung,15th President of South Korea (b. 1925) |
2009-09-01 |
Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974) |
2009-12-16 |
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, controversial South African Health Minister (b. 1940) |
2010-02-05 |
Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement (b. 1924). |
2010-05-25 |
Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African opera singer (b. 1975) |
2010-09-30 |
Martin Ljung, Pippi in the South Seas |
2010-12-26 |
Edward Bhengu, South African activist (b. 1934) |
2011-05-30 |
Giorgio Tozzi, South Pacific |
2011-12-13 |
Park Tae-joon, South Korean general and founder of steel giant Posco, dies at 84 |
2012-01-12 |
Bill Janklow, four-term Governor of South Dakota, dies of brain cancer at 72 |
2012-03-02 |
Lawrence Anthony, South African conservationist and author, dies from heart attack at 61 |
2012-05-07 |
Kevin R. Young, North and South |
2012-06-07 |
Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist, dies at 86 |
2012-09-05 |
Joe South, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, dies from heart failure at 72 |
2012-09-05 |
Joe South, Children of Men |
2012-09-23 |
Corrie Sanders, South African boxer, shot dead at 46 |
2012-11-22 |
Bryce Courtenay, South African-born Australian novelist, dies from stomach cancer at 79 |
2012-12-16 |
Josh Weston, Deep South: The Big and the Easy, Part 1 |
2012-12-21 |
Jarl Borssén, Pippi in the South Seas |
2013-01-06 |
Neil Adcock, South African cricketer, dies from bowel cancer at 81 |
2013-02-02 |
John Kerr, South Pacific |
2013-03-30 |
Phil Ramone, South-African born American music producer, dies from an aortic aneurysm at 79 |
2013-07-26 |
Maria Melin, Sergeant Körmy and the South Pacific |
2013-12-05 |
Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner (1962-1990) and South African President (1994-99) dies of a lung infection at 95 |
2014-09-18 |
Kenny Wheeler, South of Black Drink Crier |
2015-02-26 |
Alice Hammerstein, Passion, Prejudice and South Pacific: Creating an American Masterpiece |
2016-05-31 |
Former Knowsley South MP Eddie O'Hara dies aged 78 |
2017-02-14 |
Tom Cruise's mother Mary Lee South dies aged 80, memorial held at Church of Scientology |
2017-03-30 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-04-01 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-04-02 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-04-04 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-04-12 |
South Korean LGBTI pioneer Justin Lim dies aged 32 |
2018-05-20 |
South Korea's LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo dies at 73 |
2018-06-26 |
David Goldblatt, Acclaimed South African Photographer, Dies at 87 |
