They finally got their feet back on solid ground.
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The moment you give up is the moment that you let someone else win. | Kobe Bryant
South Africa is the only country to voluntarily dismantle its nuclear weapons and is the sole nation to host Rugby, Cricket, and Soccer World Cups.
1822 Having not allowed stereotypes to stop her dreams, Margaret Bulkley is appointed medical inspector of the Cape Colony. During 10 years of work in the Cape, she effected significant changes, such as improvements to sanitation and water, improved conditions for enslaved people, prisoners, and the mentally ill, and provision of a sanctuary for the leper population. Wherever she served, improvements were made to sanitary conditions and the diet and conditions of both the common soldier and other under-represented groups. In her guise as Dr James Barry, she also performed the first successful Caesarean section; the child was christened James Barry Munnik in her honour, and was the godfather of Boer War general and Prime Minister, JBM Hertzog. Barry’s gender remained a secret until her autopsy. The lyrics of the song, Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better, from the movie Annie Get Your Gun, ring true.
1882 Six months after the storied Shoot-out at the O.K. Corral, Marshall Morgan Earp, one of the legendary Earp brothers, is assassinated by a vengeful gunman while playing billiards in Tombstone, Arizona. Brother Wyatt exacts frontier justice. Before he died, Morgan whispered: “I can’t see a damned thing.” Wyatt said that they had promised to report visions of the next world at the point of death.
1994 South Africa’s Goldstone Committee uncovers the existence of the secret police.
2000 Aid arrives in Mozambique where flooding has left up to 700 people dead and destroyed the homes of another 2 million.
2007 Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistan’s cricket coach and Protea’s ex-coach, is found dead in his hotel room a few hours after Pakistan’s upset loss at the Cricket World Cup. Former SA captain Clive Rice said that Woolmer had been murdered by organised crime groups, saying, “These mafia betting syndicates do not care who gets in their way.”
2025 Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza, killing 404 people and injuring 562, ending a ceasefire agreement reached in January.
2025 NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally rescued by a SpaceX capsule and return to Earth from the International Space Station after having had to spend nine months aboard, instead of the planned one week.
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