Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Category. v. t. e. The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. [ 1] Students from various schools began to protest in the streets of the Soweto township in response to the introduction of ...
Zolile Hector Pieterson (19 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising in 1976, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured population in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subjects.
In Soweto, South Africa, on June 16, 1976, about ten thousand black school children marched in a column more than half a mile long, protesting the poor quality of their education and demanding their right to be taught in their own language. Hundreds of young students were shot, the most famous of which being Hector Pieterson. Sadly, more than a ...
June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho, killing 11 people. June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan, Iowa. June 16 – Francis E. Meloy, Jr., the newly appointed United States Ambassador to Lebanon, is assassinated in Beirut.
Explosion. At 10:32am on June 16, 1976, a workman operating a skip loader in the median near the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Bagley Avenue struck an 8 inches (200 mm) gas pipeline owned by Standard Oil Company of California (now Chevron Corporation). Gasoline under 600 pounds per square inch (4,100 kPa) of pressure sprayed into the air ...
June 16 is the 167th day of the year ... the largest in Hong Kong's history. [16] Births ... 1896 – Murray Leinster, American author and screenwriter (d. 1976)
12 June – Stewart Carson, badminton player. 3 July – Bobby Skinstad, Springboks captain. 1 August – Lucky Lekgwathi, football player. 24 August – DJ Tira, DJ, Record Producer and Businessman, founder of Afrotainment. 11 September – Vuyo Dabula, actor. 13 September – Linda Sokhulu, actress. 3 October – Carl Beukes, actor.
June 4, 1976 (Friday) The Boston Celtics defeated the Phoenix Suns 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the NBA Finals at the Boston Garden. In 1997, the game would be selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years. The game had been tied 95-95 at the end of regulation, then 101-101 and 112-112.