On 23 April:
1500 - Pedro Cabal claimed Brazil for Portugal.
1872 - Charlotte E. Ray became the first
black woman lawyer.
1945 - The Soviet Army fought its way into
Berlin.
1969 - Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death
for killing U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy.
1985 - The Coca-Cola Company announced that
it was changing its 99-year-old secret formula. New Coke
was not successful, which resulted in the resumption of
selling the original version.
1997 - An infertility doctor in California
announced that a 63-year-old woman had given birth in late
1996. The child was from a donor egg. The woman is the oldest
known woman to give birth.
1998 - James Earl Ray died, at age 70, while
serving a life sentence for the assassination of Martin
Luther King Jr.
2009 – The iTunes Music Store reached
1 billion applications downloaded.
But there are some things that should be,
but are never recorded.
For example:
As all Galaxy goers will know, there is a security person
that has been working at the club for 30 years.
On New Years Eve 2000, the eve of the new millennium, we
are standing outside the Club.
One of the other security says to him of thirty years
service ‘ Do you know how big tonight is. This
only happens once every one thousand years.’
Turning to me, he added ‘One day, when his grandchildren
asks him ‘Wat het oupa gedoen op die millennium? He
will answer. “ Nie, oppie millennium my kind, het
oupa agter die karre gekyk by die Galaxy.”
Kader Khan
