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UPDATED: 25/08/2025 25 AUGUST 1904, De Beers takes over the town council electricity 25 AUGUST 1954, Gallery founder Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin dies. Photographer extraordinaire Alfred Duggan-Cronin Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin (pictured) was an Irish-born South African photographer who undertook several photographic and collecting ...

UPDATED: 25/05/2023 25 May 1875, Police Constable Pieter Sam executed in Kimberley for murdering two prisoners. This is the first execution in Kimberley. 25 May 1893, Air Vice Marshal Sir Christopher Quintin Brand born in Beaconsfield. 25 May 1984, Sister ...