Family members have visited Pele at the Sao Paulo hospital where he is suffering from worsening cancer as well as kidney and heart problems. Image: Wikimedia Commons
On This Day in South Africa: What happened on 03 December?
We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today.
Family members have visited Pele at the Sao Paulo hospital where he is suffering from worsening cancer as well as kidney and heart problems. Image: Wikimedia Commons
Here’s a look at what happened on this day, 03 December, throughout world and South African history. We remember the news, events, and people that influenced the course of history forever.
ON THIS DAY: 03 DECEMBER
1988 | Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini, head of the International Affairs Department of the ANC, died in exile in Zambia.
2007 | Winter storms caused the Chehalis River to flood several towns in Lewis County, Washington, closing a 20-mile stretch of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths were recorded and billions of dollars in damage.
2014 | Japan’s space agency, JAXA, launched the Hayabusa2 space probe from the Tanegashima Space Station on a six-year round trip to the asteroid to collect rock samples.
2012 | At least 475 people were killed after typhoon Bopha made landfall in the Philippines.
2009 | A suicide bomb attack in a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
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BIRTHDAYS
1950 | South African anti-apartheid activist, Muntu Myeza.
1934 | Peruvian philosopher and academic, Abimael Guzmán.
1973 | American actress and producer, Holly Marie Combs.
1985 | American basketball player, Robert Swift.
1962 | English banker, journalist, and politician, Richard Bacon.
ON THIS DAY: DEATH
2015 | Finnish speed skater, Eevi Huttunen, 93.
2003 | English actor, David Hemmings, 62.
2014 | Canadian-American psychotherapist and author, Nathaniel Branden, 84.
2014 | English-American singer-songwriter and keyboard player, Ian McLagan, 69.
2005 | American admiral, Frederick Ashworth, 93.
SPORTS
1997 | On this day, Pele received an honorary knighthood from the Queen at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
ENTERTAINMENT
2010 | On this day “Tres Metros Sobre El Cielo” was released for the first time in Spain.
AFRICA FACT
The largest unbroken caldera in the world is Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania.
