Governor-General - Gideon Brand van Zyl, Governor-General of South Africa ( 1946Events January January 4 Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940 January 7 Allied recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders the country is divided into four occupation zones Januar- 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We)
Prime Minister - Daniel François MalanDaniel Francois Malan ( May 22, 1874 February 7, 1959) is seen as the champion of South African nationalism. He was also the first prime minister of the apartheid government in South Africa. Malan was born in the village of Riebeek-Wes. In 1905, Malan was, Prime Minister of South Africa ( 19481948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 1 Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Ital- 1954Events January events January 14 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation January 14 Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. January 15 Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya January 20 The Nati)
ZanzibarZanzibar Tanzania, comprises a pair of islands off the east coast of Africa called Zanzibar ('Unguja') (1994 est. 800,000, 1,554 km²) and Pemba. They are, together with Mafia Island, sometimes referred to as the Spice Islands, though the term is more comm - Sayyid Khalifa bin Harub Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar ( 1911- 1960)