1988 Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, popularly known as AKA is born Cape Town. He started out his hip hop career as part of a group called Entity and after the group disbanded in 2006, he ventured into his successful solo music career
1958 The Lego company patents their design of Lego bricks, which are still compatible with bricks produced today
1813 Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is first published on this day by Thomas Egerton in the United Kingdom
1887 Work formally begins on the Eiffel Tower in Paris
