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Dalmations are born white and only get their spots from about 2-4 weeks into their life, usually on their heads and necks. It takes a year for the markings to completely develop.
1455 Enea Silvio Piccolomini (the future Pope Pius II) writes a letter to a cardinal he works for, referring to the bible printed a year before that had such neat lettering that the cardinal would be able to read it without glasses. It is the first record of the Gutenberg Bible.
1488 Portuguese navigator Bartholomew Diaz erects his first padrao (stone cross) at Kwaaihoek, at Kenton on Sea, near the mouth of the Bushman’s River, eastern Cape. It is SA’s oldest monument, and was one of three stone crosses he raised along southern Africa.
1815 Cornelis Moll, founder of the first Natal newspaper, De Natalier, is born as the 24th child of a Cape Town family. He had 11 children.
1881 Andrew Watson débuts for Scotland as the world’s first black international footballer.
1894 Coca-Cola is first bottled and sold.
1912 Juliette Gordon founds the Girl Guides, a world-wide organisation active also in SA.
1930 Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March in protest at Britain’s monopoly on salt in India.
1993 Bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing 300.
1993 IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins a 2½ week speech to the KwaZulu legislative assembly, averaging nearly 2½ hours a day – a world record. His speech writer, paid by the word, once submitted a letter to the Daily News. Chief sub-editor Bob Cooper measured it as stretching from the works department in the old Daily News building in Field Street, Durban, up the stairs and all the way up to the editors’ office, and then back down again. Not surprisingly, it was too long to edit.
2011 Japan declares a state of emergency because of the failure of the cooling system at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, following the previous day’s tsunami which caused three nuclear reactors to melt down. Although not as bad as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, it causes the evacuation of 200 000 people.
2023 Cyclone Freddy makes landfall for a second time in central Mozambique, killing about 200 people and setting records as the longest-lasting cyclone in the southern hemisphere after it formed on February 6.
2023 Half a million Israeli’s protest for the 10th week in a row against plans by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to overhaul the country’s judicial system.
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