UPDATED: 06/03/2024 6 March 1958, An UFO, or meteorite, flashes across Kimberley before exploding into six pieces. DID YOU KNOW The official opening of the Rooipoort Shooting Box (pictured) was on Thursday 10 August 1899 when a group of De ...
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UPDATE: 16/02/2024 16 February 1900, The Battle of Dronfield. 16 February 1901, Four Black mine workers killed in a mud rush in De Beers Mine. 16 February 2001, Clyde N Terry Hall of Militaria opens at the MOTH Centre. FUTILE ...
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UPDATE: 15/02/2024 15 February 1853, Alfred Beit, financial genius, born in Hamburg. 15 February 1882, Street Lights tested in Kimberley, but they fail. 15 February 1900, Kimberley is relieved in 1900 by General French after 124 days of siege by ...
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UPDATE: 09/02/2024 9 February 1887, Goldfields company started by Cecil Rhodes and Charles Rudd. 9 February 1900, George Labram, designer of the Long Cecil gun, killed by a Long Tom shell hitting the Grand Hotel. 9 February 1978, Robert Sobukwe admitted to ...
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UPDATED: 08/02/2024 8 February 1900, City Hall architect Fergus Carstairs-Rogers hit by Long Tom shell splinter in the Kimberley Club. 8 February 1947, Cornelia Smith and her stepson Reginald electrocuted in their Greenside home. CITY HALL ARCHITECT HIT BY LONG ...
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UPDATED: 07/02/2024 7 February 1900, Famous British golfer, Freddie Tait, killed fighting Boers at Koodoosberg. 7 February 1900, The Boer Long Tom fires into Kimberley for the first time at 11am. 7 February 1901, Military stores burnt out at the Transvaal Road ...
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5 February 1891, Wesselton Mine rushed by diggers. 5 February 1950, Rugby great FJ “Uncle” Dobbin dies. HUNDREDS OF DIGGERS LAY CLAIMS TO LAND Despite common knowledge of Henry Ward having the mineral rights to the land owned by JJ ...
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2 February 1881, Kimberley Stock Exchange opens. 2 February 1901, All businesses in Beaconsfield closed as a mark of respect for the death of Queen Victoria. 2 February 1948, Bevil Gordon D’Urban Rudd MC dies. NATURAL SPORTSMAN WHO WON OLYMPIC ...
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01 February 1876, The High Court of Griqualand West moves from Barkly West to Kimberley. 01 February 1899, Tramline between Kimberley and Kenilworth opens. 01 February 1909, Alfred Beit House, the hostel for girls at Kimberley GHS, opens. 01 February ...
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UPDATED: 30/01/2024 30 January 1884, Arthur E Caldecott awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal. 30 January 1903, Mrs Joseph Chamberlain (Mary Crowninshield Endicott, daughter of the US Secretary of War) lays the foundation stone of the Women’s Hostel in Lennox Street. ...
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