Having outlived his usefulness, former US ally Manuel Noreiga is jailed by US authorities in Florida.
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1847 Prominent American missionary Dr Newton Adams, after whom Adams Mission, west of Amanzimtoti, in the Umlazi district south of Durban, is named, dies. His settlement, established in 1836, was destroyed by Dingaan, but rebuilt in 1839. Adams played a key role within the community by providing medical care as well as printing pamphlets in Zulu. In 1844 he was ordained and frequently preached to up to 1 000 people. His school provided education to 100 pupils at a time and his medical skills were widely sought after. He became known among the Zulus as ‘the teacher with 3 coats’ because of his changing of clothes to suit his different areas of work, (including a white medical coat).
1920 The Wall Street bombing takes place when a bomb planted in a horse wagon explodes in front of the JP Morgan building in New York, killing 38 people and injuring 400.
1963 Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. Singapore leaves soon atyer.
1976 Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a reservoir in Yerevan.
1979 Eight people escape from East Germany to the West in a homemade hot-air balloon.
1992 Deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is jailed by the US for 40 years.
2015 Three million people die of air pollution each year, more than from malaria and HIV/Aids combined, says the journal Nature.
2015 An earthquake off Illapel, Chile kills 11 people; another 1 million are evacuated.
2015 An oil tanker explosion kills 170 people in Maridi, South Sudan.
2019 Guantánamo Bay is the world’s most expensive prison at $13 million per prisoner according to The New York Times.
2021 Britain’s Kew Gardens sets the record for the biggest plant collection (16 900).
2021 The earliest evidence for humans making clothes, using bone tools 100 000 years old, is found in Morocco.
2023 Rising temperatures cause a massive rockslide creating a 200m-high tsunami that sloshes back and forth in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord for nine days, creating vibrations measured around the Earth.
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