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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 21 MAY
UPDATED: 21/05/2025 21 May 1878, Griquatown relieved by a Kimberley column. 21 May 1891, YMCA in Newton opens. 21 May…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 20 MAY
UPDATED: 20/05/2025 20 May 1883, Robert Milne murdered in Beaconsfield. 20 May 1889, Beaconsfield Public Library and Institution officially opened. 20…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 19 MAY
19 May 1879, Presbyterian Church foundation stone laid by Sir Walter Frere, New Main Road. 19 May 1881, First sod…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 16 MAY
UPDATED: 16/05/2025 16 May 1899, Headmaster of Kimberley Boy’s High School, LC Wilkes, dies of typhus. Typhoid fever claims Boys…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 09 MAY
UPDATED: 09/05/2025 9 May 1890, The first camera club in SA is established in Kimberley with eighteen members. 9 May…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 02 MAY
UPDATED: 02/05/2025 2 May 1881, First railway in Kimberley, a privately owned service line from the Kimberley Mine to the…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 25 APRIL
UPDATED: 25/04/2025 25 April 1886, Daughter of Sir JB Robinson, Elizabeth, dies. 25 April 1901, Lt-Colonel David Harris and Lt-Colonel…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 11 APRIL
11 April 1891, Kimberley win the Currie Cup cricket in Johannesburg. KIMBERLEY WINS THE CURRIE CUP CRICKET 134 years ago…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 08 APRIL
8 April 1879, Charles Warren Lodge meets for the first time in Dutoitspan. 8 April 1890, Transvaal beats Kimberley on…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 07 APRIL
UPDATED: 07/04/2025 7 April 1881, JB Robinson takes his seat in the Cape Legislative Assembly. 7 April 1904, Gladstone Park…
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