UPDATED: 26/10/2020 26 OCTOBER 1888, Nazareth House opens on Dutoitspan Road. 26 OCTOBER 1892, SA rugby player Harry Boyes dies tragically. 26 OCTOBER 1897, Theatre Royal opens in Kimberley on Dutoitspan Road. 26 OCTOBER 1941, The altar of the re-built St ...
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UPDATED: 05/10/2020 5 October 1894, Bevil Gordon D’Urban Rudd MC born. 5 October 1895, Nazareth House Chapel opens for worship. 5 October 1990, Inaugural Barney Barnato Golf Tournament. Nazareth House Chapel opens The construction on the Nazareth House chapel began ...
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UPDATED: 01/10/2020 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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UPDATED: 23/09/2020 23 September 1871, Theatre Royal in Dutoitspan Village opens. 23 September 1887, The Queen’s Theatre opens. 23 September 1918, The first case of Spanish Flu in Dutoitspan Mine compound detected. 23 September 1942, Colonel Sir David Harris, cousin of Barney Barnato ...
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UPDATED: 16/09/2020 16 September 1901, Frans Matlap dies during blasting operations at De Beers mine. 16 September 1920, Andrew Kiddie, the founder of the bakery, dies. 16 September 1925, Architect Daniel W Greatbatch dies. 16 September 1964, Clarence Edward Crowther ...
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UPDATED: 01/09/2020 1 September 1877, Jan Hoogstander murdered by William Danster near Barkly West. 1 September 1892, Savoy Hotel on Boshof Road opens for business. 1 September 1918, DBCM Director and Chairman Francis Oats dies. 1 September 1964, Diamond evaluator Ellis Wynne ...
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UPDATED: 25/08/2020 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 ...
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UPDATED: 13/08/2020 13 August 1924, Marthinus Kruger dies after a rugby injury during practice. 13 August 2016, Professor Elaine Rosa Salo (pictured) dies in the USA. In Memoriam: Elaine Salo From: University of Delaware Arts and Sciences Department of Women ...
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UPDATED: 15/07/2020 15 July 1871, Diamond News reports that there are 43 graves in Dutoitspan cemetery. 15 July 1916, The SA Brigade moves into Delville Wood (pictured) at 05h00. 15 July 1928, Kimberley’s Cenotaph (pictured) unveiled in Dutoitspan Road. 15 ...
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UPDATED: 14/07/2020 14 July 1858, Black prisoners massacred by farmers near Boshof. 14 July 1950, USA women’s hockey team beat Griqualand West women 2-1. 14 July 1964, SA hockey player Wally Ubsdell dies. Kenilworth Springbok hockey player Wally Ubsdell Walter ...
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