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10 September – Transvaal – Lydenburg to Steelpoort, 74 miles 40 chains (119.9 kilometres). [2] 19 September – South West Africa – Gobabis Junction in Windhoek to Ondekaremba, 29 miles 70 chains (48.1 kilometres). [2] 22 September – Transvaal – Naboomspruit to Singlewood, 20 miles 47 chains (33.1 kilometres). [2]
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
September 28, 1924 (Sunday) [ edit ] The four remaining American aviators in the round-the-world flight expedition completed their journey by landing at Sand Point in Seattle in the airplanes Chicago (with pilot Lowell H. Smith and co-pilot Leslie P. Arnold) and New Orleans (with pilot Erik H. Nelson and co-pilot John Harding Jr), all four of ...
28 September – Pieter-Dirk Uys, performer, author, satirist, and social activist. 5 October – Riaan Cruywagen, news reader and voice artist; 16 October – Kaizer Motaung, footballer, founder & chairman of Kaizer Chiefs F.C. 22 October – Lillian Dube, actress & TV host; 17 December – Belinda Bozzoli, academic and politician (d.2020)
Most pre-colonial history in East and Central Africa was recorded orally. The best known memory device from this region still in use is the Lukasa memory board from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [72] [73] 1935 Makhan Singh pioneers the trade union movement in Kenya by starting Labour trade union of Kenya. He organised the Railway ...
Name Year Colonial power Morocco: 1912 France [1]: Libya: 1911 Italy [2]: Fulani Empire: 1903 France and the United Kingdom: Swaziland: 1902 United Kingdom [3]: Ashanti Confederacy: 1900 ...
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12 January – Eileen KaNkosi-Shandu, leader of the Inkatha Women Brigade. 27 February – Graeme Pollock, former cricketer & cricket administrator 3 March – Jerrold Kessel, South-African-born Israeli journalist and author.