| Week
starting Monday 11 October |
|
| Date |
Year |
Event
|
|
| 11 |
1935 |
League of Nations places arms embargo on Italy and lifts ban
on Abyssinia (Ethiopia). |
| 11 |
1986 |
Mother Teresa escapes unhurt from a plane crash in Tanzania
which kills six. |
| 11 |
1966 |
General Magnus Malan, former South African defence minister,
walks free after a trial in which he was accused of authorizing death squads. |
|
| 12 |
1906 |
German troops crush Nama uprising in South West Africa. |
| 12 |
1904 |
What is now Soweto, SOuth-WEstern TOwnships,
becomes a destination for thousands of black South Africans during the Apartheid
era. The original Klipspruit location (present day Pimville) 13 km from
Johannesburg was established in 1904. The council used an outbreak of bubonic
plague as an excuse to burn down the "Coolie Location" of Braamfontein
and evict 600 Indian and 1,358 black African residents. The name Soweto was not
coined until 1963, after a four year "competition" to find a name for
Johannesburg's "slum clearance". The prize was a mere £10. |
| 12 |
1980 |
Joshua Nkomo, in Zimbzbwe, says "Black Africa would
still be in slavery without Soviet assistance". |
|
| 13 |
1956 |
U.S.S.R. vetoes U.N. approval of the Anglo-French proposal
for control of the Suez Canal. |
| 13 |
1967 |
Cairo says U.S. intelligence helped Israel win war. |
| 13 |
1985 |
The ANC says it "is not prepared to negotiate
peaceful settlement with Pretoria". |
|
| 14 |
1960 |
2000 Troops surround black townships in Southern Rhodesia. |
| 14 |
1976 |
Scientists have identified the mysterious disease (Green
monkey, a variant of hemorrhagic viral fever) that has caused more than 300
deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan since 7 Oct. |
|
| 15 |
1958 |
President Habib Ali Bourguiba, of Tunisia, breaks relations
with the United Arab Republic (UAR). |
| 15 |
1973 |
Racial segregation legislation is extended by South African
government to include private gatherings. |
| 15 |
1989 |
Walter
Sisulu is amongst eight South African nationalists who are freed from jail. |
|
| 16 |
1916 |
T. E. Lawrence arrives in Cairo with British fact-finding
mission - who's purpose is to recommend ways of supporting the Arab revolt
against the Ottoman Empire. |
| 16 |
1970 |
Anwar Sadat succeeds Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (who died on
28 September of a heart attack) as President of Egypt. |
|
| 17 |
1973 |
In fierce fire-fights, Egyptian and Israeli forces clash in
the Sinai desert. |
| 17 |
1989 |
A 103-nation conference in Lausanne votes for a complete
global ban of the ivory trade. |
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