Writer, Historian and Founder of WWW.AFRICATODAYYESTERDAY.ORG
• 1906 Pretoria City Council receives a donation of 200 Jacaranda seedling imported from Australia
• 1906 The Heart of Darkness novel published
• 1910 Cairo’s major hotels launch self propelled automobile made available for
tours of Egyptian antiquities
• 1884 Berlin Conference - scramble for Africa
• 1925 1st Airplane flight from London to Cape Town
• 1869 Suez Canal opens in Egypt
• 1829 From the Cape of Good Hope looking for new seals to hunt in Antartica 

 

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