On This Day: What happened on 01 July?

Here’s a look at what happened on this day, 01 July, throughout history. We remember the news, events, and people that influenced the course of history forever.

1911 | A German gunboat, the Panther, reaches Morocco, increasing tensions between European powers.

1938 | South African Press Association is established.

1942 | British troops, after receiving much needed supplies and additional troops from New Zealand, Canada and Australia, went on the offensive against Rommel’s Afrika Korps at El Alamein in Egypt.

1960 | Ghana is declared a republic.

2008 | Nelson Mandela was no longer on the United States terror watch list after then president George W. Bush signed the bill that officially removed him from the list.

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DEATHS

1953 | Afrikaner poet, Totius, Jacob Daniël du Toit (76)

2001 | Politician, trade unionist and former vice president of Zimbabwe, Joshua Nkomo (82)

BIRTHDAYS

1918 | Ahmed Deedat, South African writer and public speaker.

1921 | Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana, Seretse Khama.

1940 | South African activist and politician, Ela Gandhi.

1946 | Ghanaian novelist and poet, Kojo Laing.

1949 | Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter, Néjia Ben Mabrouk.

SPORT

2007 | India beat the Proteas by 6 wickets in the Future Cup.

2010 | Ireland wins against Kenya by 7 wickets at the ICC World Cricket League Division in Rotterdam.

ENTERTAINMENT

2007 | A live concert beamed to over 140 countries around the world as a memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales hosted by Princes William and Prince Harry.

AFRICA FACT

The Serengeti (Tanzania) hosts the world’s largest wildlife migration on Earth with over 750,000 zebra marching ahead of 1.2 million wildebeest as they cross this amazing landscape.