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Charles Robberts Swart
1894Dec, 5

Charles Robberts Swart

Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (d. 1982)
Charles Robberts Swart (5 December 1894 – 16 July 1982), nicknamed Blackie, was a South African politician who served as the last governor-general of the Union of South Africa from 1959 to 1961 and the first state president of the Republic of South Africa from 1961 to 1967.

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  • 14Apr

    Kinetoscope

    The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
  • 11May

    Pullman Palace Car Company

    Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
  • 4Jul

    Sanford B. Dole

    The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
  • 25Aug

    Bubonic plague

    Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
  • 1Nov

    Annie Oakley

    Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.