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1831<\/strong> Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.<\/p>\n 1836<\/strong> The worst avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, in Sussex, killing eight people.<\/p>\n 1838 <\/strong> A Voortrekker commando is ambushed by a Zulu impi in the Battle of the White Umfolozi. Pioneer settler Alexander Biggar is one of those killed in the running fight.<\/p>\n 1899<\/strong> Harry Escombe (61), the former premier of Natal, dies in Durban.<\/p>\n 1918 <\/strong> The Great Poland Uprising, which will have a significant effect on the Treaty of Versailles that ends War I, begins against the Germans.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> Japan builds the world\u2019s first purpose-built aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n 1929<\/strong> Soviet leader Joseph Stalin orders \u2018Dekulakisation\u2019, the liquidation of the Kulaks \u2013 wealthy independent farmers \u2013 to facilitate farmland expropriations . About 5 million peole died.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> South Africa abandons the Gold Standard, sparking a period of economic expansion.<\/p>\n 1934 <\/strong> The Shah of Persia, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, changes Persia\u2019s name to Iran.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> Popular actress Mae West performs her racy Adam & Eve<\/em> skit, which gets her banned from NBC radio.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> An earthquake in Turkey kills 32 700.<\/p>\n 1945 <\/strong> The International Monetary Fund and the Bank are created.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> Prominent activist Matthew Goniwe, one of the Craddock Four and someone the police decided should be \u201cpermanently removed from society as a matter of urgency\u201d, is born.<\/p>\n 1960 <\/strong> France detonates its third atomic device in the Sahara desert.<\/p>\n 1966 <\/strong> The largest cave shaft in the world, the Cave of Swallows, is discovered in Mexico.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong> After invading Afghanistan two days earlier, Soviet forces pull off a coup in Kabul by killing President Hafizullah Amin.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> Pope John Paul II pardons Turkish assassin Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who tried to kill him.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> Palestinian guerrillas kill 18 people inside the airports of Rome, and Vienna.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> Truck bombs kill 72 people and wound 200 in Grozny, Chechnya.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong> Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> Star Wars<\/em> actress Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) dies of a heart attack, aged 60. | The Historian<\/p>\n Look: see more<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1831 Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution. 1836 The worst avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, in Sussex, killing eight people. 1838 A Voortrekker commando is ambushed by a Zulu impi in the Battle of the White Umfolozi. Pioneer settler Alexander […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}