BEVERLY HILLS, CA – NOVEMBER 09: Zindzi Mandela speaks onstage during the 2013 BAFTA LA Jaguar Britannia Awards presented by BBC America at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 9, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP
On This Day: What happened on 13 July?
We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today. Every day is worth remembering.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – NOVEMBER 09: Zindzi Mandela speaks onstage during the 2013 BAFTA LA Jaguar Britannia Awards presented by BBC America at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 9, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP
Here’s a look at what happened on this day, 13 July, throughout history. We remember the news, events, and people that influenced the course of history forever.
1963 | India intensifies struggle against apartheid.
1977 | Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
1983 | Terre’Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), and his associates to face terrorism charges.
1984 | The last sitting of an all-white Parliament in South Africa.
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DEATHS
1980 | Botswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana, Seretse Khama (59)
2014 | South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate, Nadine Gordimer (90)
2020 | South African politician, diplomat, and third daughter of Nelson Mandela, Zindzi Mandela (59)
BIRTHDAYS
1916 | South African Linguist and educationist, Sedumedi Moloto.
1922 | Egyptian military commander, Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar.
1934 | Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate, Wole Soyinka.
1939 | South African admiral, Lambert Jackson Woodburne.
SPORT
1986 | Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games.
2010 | South africa loses 0 – 22 to Serbia in the volleyball FINA Men’s World League Super Final.
ENTERTAINMENT
1985 | The Live Aid Concert was a series of rock concerts held to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia around the world in cites including London, Philadelphia, Sydney and Moscow.
AFRICA FACT
Sudan is Africa’s largest country (968,000 square miles).
