Zulu royal linage – On this day in history and Did You Know: September 22
An artist's depiction of how Shaka may have looked, based upon early eye-witness accounts.
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On This Day
1735 Robert Walpole becomes the first British First Lord of the Treasury, or prime minister, to live at 10 Downing Street, London.
1828 Shaka, Zulu chief and founder of the Zulu empire, is murdered by his half-brothers, Dingaan and Mhlangana. The chiefs that preceded Shaka were:
Mageba (born in 1667, died in 1745),
Ndaba (1697-1763),
Jama (1721-1781) and,
Senzangakhona (1757-1816). '
After Shaka (1785-1828) came
Dingaan (1788-1840),
Mpande (1790-1872),
Cetshwayo (1834-1884),
Dinuzulu (1868-1913),
Phumuzuzulu (1890-1933),
Bhekuzulu (1924-1968),
Goodwill Zwelithini (1948-2021) and
Misuzulu (1974-).
1914 Louis Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa, assumes command of the armed forces after having dismissed General Christiaan Beyers because of his refusal to aid Britain in their war against Germany.
1941 The German SS murders 6 000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those were the survivors of of about 24 000, shot a few days earlier.
1979 A bright, double flash resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon is observed near Prince Edward Island by a satellite. Its cause is never determined, but is assumed to be from a South African nuclear test.
1985 French premier Laurent Fabius admits France sank Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior.
2011 Cern scientists say they’ve discovered neutrinos breaking the speed of light.
2015 Palangkaraya in Indonesian Borneo records the highest air pollutant index value ever recorded due to haze caused by forest fires lit to clear land for palm oil plantations.
2015 Volkswagen admits 11 million cars were programmed to show false emissions data.
2021 The WHO warns that urgent action is needed on air pollution, which is as bad as smoking and causes 7 million deaths a year.
2024 China sets a new world record for the most resistive magnet at 42.02 tesla at Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, creating a magnetic field more than 800 000 times stronger than Earth’s. Why you might ask? China is in a race with other nations to make technological breakthroughs, especially in the fields of quantum physics, nuclear fusion, super conductors and next gen medical technology.
Did You Know
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