Man, what a day!
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Quote of the day: “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran
Did you know? Your tongue print is unique, just like your fingerprint.
193 Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by his bodyguards, the Praetorian Guard, who then sell the throne in an auction.
1879 Nearly 100 officers and men of Brevet Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood’s column are killed in a desperate fight against a Zulu impi on Hlobane Mountain during the Anglo-Zulu War. Piet Uys, commander of the Burgher Force consisting of Utrecht Boers and forming part of Wood’s column, is also killed. In this fight, Colonel (later General Sir Redvers) Buller saves a number of lives and wins the Victoria Cross.
1933 The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool becomes the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger starts a fire on board.
1960 An explosion at a warehouse storing one million gallons of whisky and 30 000 gallons of rum kills 20 firemen in Glasgow, Scotland.
1960 The ANC calls for a nationwide stay-at-home in protest at the Sharpeville massacre. Passbooks are burned in countless bonfires.
1982 Armscor announces that South Africa has produced a world-beating 155mm artillery system, the G5.
1994 Nineteen Zulus are killed during a march at Shell House, the ANC’s head office in Johannesburg.
2017 The world’s largest dinosaur footprint (1.7 metres) is discovered in Western Australia.
2019 A study of a 71-year-old British woman who has never felt pain reveals the cause to be a rare gene mutation.
2022 Actor Will Smith issues an apology on Instagram to Oscars host Chris Rock for slapping him on stage during the ceremony.
2023 Kuwaiti News unveils a virtual news presenter on Twitter speaking Arabic using AI (although China was the first in 2018).
2024 The Arizona Supreme Court upholds an 1864 law banning all abortions except to save a woman’s life.
2024 James and Jennifer Crumbley, the first parents held criminally responsible for a US mass school shooting committed by their child, are sentenced to 10–15 years for manslaughter in Michigan.
2024 A bus crash kills 45 Easter pilgrims from Botswana in South Africa, with a child surviving a 50-metre drop off the Mmamatlakala Bridge near Mokopane, Limpopo.
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