Here’s a look at what happened On this day, January 6, throughout world and South African history. We remember the news, events and people that influenced the course of history forever.
ON THIS DAY: JANUARY 06
2002 | ANC Chairman Thabo Mbeki addresses a large crowd during a celebration marking the 90th anniversary of the founding of the African National Congress (ANC), which came eight years after South Africa’s first non-apartheid elections in 1994.
2005 | American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen was arrested as a suspect in the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964.
nineteen ninety five | A chemical fire at an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, led to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a terrorist attack.
1993 | Units of the Indian Border Security Force killed 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in retaliation after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
1992 | Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia fled the country due to a military coup.
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BIRTHDAY
1989 | South African rugby union footballer Wimpie van der Walt.
1967 | South African swimmer Annette Cowley-Nel
1938 | Italian singer-songwriter, actor and director, Adriano Celentano.
1975 | American football player, James Farrior.
1932 | American chemist and academic, Stuart A. Rice.
[1945[1945 | Welsh rugby player, Barry John.
ON THIS DAY: DEATHS
2014 | French Resistance soldier and photographer, Marina Ginestà, 95.
2019 | Austrian-born British economics professor Paul Streeten, 102.
2016 | American actor and screenwriter, Pat Harrington, Jr., 87.
2004 | American photographer, Francesco Scavullo, 83.
1921 | US guerrilla leader, Devil Anse Hatfield, 82
SPORTS
1994 | On this day, American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked and injured by the bodyguard of her rival, Tonya Harding.
ENTERTAINMENT
1906 | French composer and pianist Maurice Ravel “Miroirs” premiered in Paris on this day for the first time.
MADE FROM AFRICA
The only African countries with military satellites are Egypt, Algeria, South Africa and Nigeria.
