American artist Meatloaf, who also sang Bat Out Of Hell.
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1879 Having lost the Anglo-Zulu War, King Cetshwayo is exiled and sent to Cape Town. The Zulu nation would not accept the pro-British chiefs and civil war reigns for decades. Cetshwayo was restored as ruler in 1883, but it did nothing for peace in the region.
1884 The sliver of land known as the Territory of Port St John’s – 3km wide on each side of the St John’s River and 16km upstream from its estuary – is annexed to the Cape as part of its divide-and-conquer policy over the amaMpondo.
1890 Mystery writer Agatha Christie is born. After initial disappointment, she becomes the best-selling novelist of all time.
1900 A Boer delegation issues an appeal at the Hague, Netherlands, that the major powers intervene in the war in South Africa.
1913 Kasturbai Gandhi, the wife of Mohandas Gandhi, leads the first batch of passive resisters from Durban – 12 men and four women – to cross the Transvaal border by train. The police arrest them.
1928 Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying flu.
1940 The RAF shoots down large numbers of German aircraft.
1947 Typhoon Kathleen hits the Kanto Region of Japan, killing 1 077 people.
1949 The son of the church’s founder, Joseph Lekganyane is installed as the leader of a divided Zion Christian Church. At that time, the ZCC had 6 000 members. He raised the membership of the church to nearly 1 million.
1993 The single, I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That), sung by Meat Loaf and composed by Jim Steinman, is released. It goes to No. 1 in 28 countries.
1994 Muslim fundamentalists kidnap and behead 16 citizens in Algeria.1997 Google.com is registered as a domain.
2013 Twenty-seven people are killed after a coal mine collapses in Afghanistan.
2018 Archaeologists find the oldest-known brewery and the remains of 13 000-year-old beer in Haifa cave, Israel, belonging to nomadic Natufian people.
2022 Tennis great Roger Federer announces his retirement from professional tennis at 41, with 20 grand slam wins and 103 ATP titles.
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