This Week in History

November 17, 2008

This Week in History

16 November 1930 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian (Igbo) novelist, whose first novel Things Fall Apart was published in 1958, is born

17 November 1977 – Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts an invitation to visit Israel

18 November 1932 – Amy Johnson lands in Cape Town, beating the existing record flight time from London by over ten hours

19 November 1872* – Mpande, Zulu King, dies in Zululand

20 November 1923 – Nadine Gordimer, SA author and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is born

21 November 1986 – Leaders of the ‘independent’ homelands meet in Pretoria

22 November 1995 – The First Draft of the Constitution is published

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