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Black pupils in Western Cape hold marches in solidarity with scholars in Soweto
Sign on a car in Cape Town during the student uprising following the Soweto riots.
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On this day in history, August 11
1771 Cape governor Ryk Tulbach, after whom the town Tulbach was named, dies.
1772 A volcanic eruption blows 1 300m off the top of Papandayan mountain, in Java, killing 3 000 people.
1858 The Swiss peak Eiger is first conquered.
1904 German-Italian General von Trotha defeats the Herero in South West Africa.
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1941 French Marshal Philippe Pétain promises his country's full support to Nazi Germany, which has invaded a great deal of the country.
1945 Emperor Hirohito of Japan informs the imperial family that he has decided to surrender following devastating firebombing of the Japanese mainland the dropping of atom bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1951 The Mississippi River floods 100 000 acres in four states: Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois.
1969 The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from quarantine after their trip to the moon.
1972 The last US ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam, with Viet-Cong guerilla tactics winning the war.
1976 African pupils from Langa, Gugulethu and Nyanga, Cape Town, hold marches in solidarity with Soweto students protesting against Afrikaans as a language of instruction – 33 people are shot dead in looting incidents.
1981 Don Estridge unveils the company's first personal computer, the IBM PC, at New York's Waldorf Hotel. Priced at $1 565 with 16 kilobytes of RAM, it helps bring computing to the masses.
1988 Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and a Dr Fadl form Al-Qaeda.
1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories.
2003 A heat wave in Paris, with temperatures of 44°C, leaves 144 people dead.
