Here’s a look at what happened On this day, January 24, throughout world and South African history. We remember the news, events and people that influenced the course of history forever.
ON THIS DAY: JANUARY 24
1979 | Information Minister Connie Mulder resigned as a result of her involvement in a plot to sell apartheid propaganda.
1960 | Nine police officers were killed in the Cato Manor riots in Durban, shortly before the infamous Sharpville Massacre.
2018 | Former doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 175 years in prison after being convicted of using his position to sexually harass gymnasts.
2009 | Cyclone Klaus made landfall near Bordeaux, France, killing 26 people and disrupting public transportation and power supplies.
1990 | Japan launched Hiten, the country’s first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a government other than the Soviet Union or the United States.
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BIRTHDAY
1997 | South African footballer, Teboho Mokoena
1990 | South African rugby player, JP Smith.
1963 | Dutch boxer, Arnold Vanderlyde.
1983 | New Zealand rugby union player Wyatt Crockett.
1955 | American businesswoman and author, Lynda Weinman.
ON THIS DAY: DEATHS
1666 | German composer and theorist, Johann Andreas Herbst, 78.
2015 | German lieutenant and pharmacist, Otto Carius, 93.
1993 | Estonian composer and conductor, Gustav Ernesaks, 85.
2004 | Brazilian soccer player and coach, Leônidas, 91.
1973 | American actor, J. Carrol Naish,77.
SPORTS
1976 | On this day, American boxing legend George Foreman scored one of boxing’s greatest comebacks when he knocked out Ron Lyle in the fifth round after being knocked down twice in the fourth round.
ENTERTAINMENT
2006 | On this day, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger announced the purchase of the animation studio Pixar for $7.4 billion.
MADE FROM AFRICA
The American multinational technology Amazon, in 2022 opened its first office in Lagos, Nigeria.
