UPDATE: 18/10/2024 18 October 1858, Wilfrid Gore-Brown, first Anglican Bishop of Kimberley. 18 October 1873, First execution on the diamond fields for murder – Kleinjan at Barkly West. 18 October 1899, First British Officer in the Boer War to die, Lt ...
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UPDATED: 01/10/2024 1 October 1881, Circus Proprietor Richard Bell dies. 1 October 1899, Six Black miners killed in a mud rush in De Beers Mine. 1 October 1909, Frances Baard born in Beaconsfield, Kimberley. 1 October 1920, De Beers announce that 101 employees ...
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27 June 1877, Kimberley Municipality formally constituted. 27 June 1882, Town Clerk JH Boag found not guilty of embezzlement. 27 June 1887, First passenger tram service officially opened to the public, started by Gibson Brothers. 27 June 1964, Andrew Cam Kiddie, World War ...
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UPDATED: 11/06/2024 11 June 1888, South Africa’s first War Memorial, the Beaconsfield Town Hall, opened (pictured). DID YOU KNOW Part Two of the Kimberley Mine Disaster. On Friday 9 June 1899 there occurred at the 1480 feet level of the ...
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UPDATED: 17/04/2024 17 April 1904, Memorial to the Cape Police who died in the Anglo-Boer War unveiled. 17 April 1935, Formal leave taking of Reverend Harris Isaacs by the Jewish community. 17 April 1946, Main building of Girls High School ...
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9 August 1902, Foundation stone of St Edward the Confessor in Kenilworth laid. 9 August 1902, Trooping of the Colours for the first time in Kimberley. 9 August 1902, Memorial Clock and Tower for Beaconsfield Town Hall completed. 9 August 1919, Griquas ...
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