2005 The first Oscar nomination for a South African film, Yesterday, is announced. Yesterday is the first feature-length film in the Zulu language. Directed and written by Darrell Roodt, starring Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase, and Kenneth Khambula
1802 Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1840 An American naval expedition under Captain Charles Wilkes is the first to identify Antarctica as a new continent
1930 The Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) is established in Port Elizabeth
