On This Day in South Africa: What happened on 25 October?

Here’s a look at what happened on this day, 25 October, throughout world and South African history. We remember the news, events, and people that influenced the course of history forever.

ON THIS DAY: 25 OCTOBER

2004 | South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) was  allowed to broadcast Thatcher Case

1919 | South African Aerial Transport services were inaugurated

1962 | Uganda joined the United Nations

1940 | Benjamin Oliver Davis became the African-American general in the United States Army

1950 | China entered the Korean War as an ally of North Korea against their counterpart South Korea and the United Nations, the US was UN’s principal participant

1955 | The first domestic microwave ovens went on sale

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BIRTHDAYS 

1995 | South African rugby union footballer, Joseph Dweba

1965 | South African boxer, Welcome Ncita

1984 | American singer-songwriter, Katy Perry

1979 | Canadian wrestler, Rosa Mendes

1881 | Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso

ON THIS DAY: DEATHS 

1992 | American singer-songwriter and actor, Roger miller, 56.

1955 | Japanese victim of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sadako Sasaki,12..

2003 | Indian cricket batsman, Hemu Adhikari, 84

2004 | English DJ and Broadcaster, John Peel, 65

SPORTS

1926 | Lester Patrick became the first coach  of New York Rangers

ENTERTAINMENT

1964 | The British rock band “the Rolling Stones” made its first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show

AFRICA FACT

Nigeria has the highest rate of twin births in the world. The last recorded figures in a little town called Igbo-Ora in the west African country revealed an average of 50 sets of twins in every 1000 births.

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