Today in Kimberley’s History
A series by Steve Lunderstedt
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 12 JUNE
UPDATED: 12/06/2025 Nothing found as yet for this day in Kimberley’s history although assuredly there is something important that happened.…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 11 JUNE
UPDATED: 11/06/2025 11 June 1888, South Africa’s first War Memorial, the Beaconsfield Town Hall, opened. Pictured is the original building…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 10 JUNE
UPDATED: 10/06/2025 10 JUNE 1964, Melanie Karam of the Convent awarded the City Council Medal. 10 JUNE 1964, Boys High…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 9 JUNE
UPDATED: 09/06/2025 9 June 1899, 30 mineworkers die in a dynamite explosion at the Kimberley Mine. 9 June 1940, Foundation…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 6 JUNE
UPDATED: 06/06/2025 6 June 1900, Official welcome to the Kimberley Mounted Corps on their return from relieving Mafeking. 6 June…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 30 MAY
30 May 1905, Colonel Frank Rhodes restores Dalham church in England as a memorial to his brother Cecil. 30 May…
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TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 23 MAY
UPDATED: 23/05/2025 23 May 1886, Foundation stone of All Saints Church in Beaconsfield laid. 23 May 1900, Presentation to Town…
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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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