Historical Events

1899 Battle of Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs. British army

1900 General Redvers Buller returns to England

Terra Nova Expedition

1911 Captain Robert Falcon Scott 's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole

1932 British government signs trade treaty with USSR

1942 British infantry advances on the second day of the Battle of El Alamein

Fangio F1 Champion

1954 Britain's Mike Hawthorn wins the season-ending Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes; Argentine Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio wins his second Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by 17 points from countryman José Froilán González

1964 Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) with Kenneth Kaunda becoming President

Voices for Today

1965 Benjamin Br

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