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12 Sep 2011 at 07:31hrs | Views
Monday September 12 is the 255th day of the year. There are 110 left.
Quote of the Day: "If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside the end is in sight.":- Jack Welch
World:
490 BC – The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
1943 - German paratroopers rescued former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held prisoner by his own government.
1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
1959 – Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first black American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
Southern Africa:
1890 – Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
1977 - Bantu Steven Biko, leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and pioneer of the Black Consciousness philosophy, died in police custody at the age of 30. A blow in a scuffle with security police led to him suffering brain damage.
1988 - In search of peace two Southern African presidents, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique met his South African counterpart P.W. Botha at Songo, in Tete province, Mozambique to affirm the two countries' pledge to abide by the Nkomati Accord. P.W. Botha pledged during the meeting not to support RENAMO, to defend and rebuild the Cahora Bassa power lines and to increase economic cooperation between the two countries.
1989 - Advocate Anton Lubowski (37), secretary-general of Swapo, was shot dead at close range with an AK47 rifle outside his luxury home in Windhoek, South West Africa. The Civil Co-Operation Bureau (CCB) was held responsible for the assassination of Lubowski.
2002 - The Fingaz alleged that the Zimbabwe government was battling to recover a staggering Z$100 billion it spent on the four-year war in the DRC); the sum was almost a third of this year's national budget.
2004 - Rachel Alexander (Ray) Simons, legendary communist and trade unionist died in Cape Town at the age of 91. She was instrumental in the formation of the Federation of South African Women and the drafting of the Women's Charter.
2007 - Workers at Zimra downed tools following the parastatal's failure to pay staff in time for three months; the workers were also demanding a 500% salary hike.
2008 - Michigan State University stripped President Mugabe of an honorary law degree it gave him in 1990, citing a pattern of human rights abuses.
2010 - Speaking during the official launch of the Zimbabwe Victims of Organised Violence Human Rights lawyers Matshobana Ncube said there were no legal backing to the organ on national healing, hence that meant it remained a mere agreement by the parties in the Government of National Unity, which was totally illegal in terms of the constitution.
Quote of the Day: "If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside the end is in sight.":- Jack Welch
World:
490 BC – The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
1943 - German paratroopers rescued former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held prisoner by his own government.
1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
1959 – Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first black American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
Southern Africa:
1890 – Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
1977 - Bantu Steven Biko, leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and pioneer of the Black Consciousness philosophy, died in police custody at the age of 30. A blow in a scuffle with security police led to him suffering brain damage.
1988 - In search of peace two Southern African presidents, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique met his South African counterpart P.W. Botha at Songo, in Tete province, Mozambique to affirm the two countries' pledge to abide by the Nkomati Accord. P.W. Botha pledged during the meeting not to support RENAMO, to defend and rebuild the Cahora Bassa power lines and to increase economic cooperation between the two countries.
1989 - Advocate Anton Lubowski (37), secretary-general of Swapo, was shot dead at close range with an AK47 rifle outside his luxury home in Windhoek, South West Africa. The Civil Co-Operation Bureau (CCB) was held responsible for the assassination of Lubowski.
2002 - The Fingaz alleged that the Zimbabwe government was battling to recover a staggering Z$100 billion it spent on the four-year war in the DRC); the sum was almost a third of this year's national budget.
2004 - Rachel Alexander (Ray) Simons, legendary communist and trade unionist died in Cape Town at the age of 91. She was instrumental in the formation of the Federation of South African Women and the drafting of the Women's Charter.
2007 - Workers at Zimra downed tools following the parastatal's failure to pay staff in time for three months; the workers were also demanding a 500% salary hike.
2008 - Michigan State University stripped President Mugabe of an honorary law degree it gave him in 1990, citing a pattern of human rights abuses.
2010 - Speaking during the official launch of the Zimbabwe Victims of Organised Violence Human Rights lawyers Matshobana Ncube said there were no legal backing to the organ on national healing, hence that meant it remained a mere agreement by the parties in the Government of National Unity, which was totally illegal in terms of the constitution.
Source - zfn
