On this day, June 27: Well-known Cape anti-Apartheid musician David Kramer is born, Anne White rebels and shocks Wimbledon by playing in a body-stoking, pregnant tennis mega-star Serena Williams poses nude, and the 'Baddest Man on the Planet' earns a cool $22 million in 90 seconds

1791 Josephus Suasso de Lima, editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, De Verzamelaar, is born in Amsterdam.

1830 The British ship, Luna runs on the rocks near Brenton after leaving Knysna.

1865 A party of Transvaal transport riders – Pieter Pretorius, younger brother of Andries Pretorius, and his three sons, Jan, Albertus and Jacobus – are murdered on the road from Durban to Pretoria by a group of Basotho. Jan’s wife and her two children are abducted but escape and reach Harrismith on foot.

1898 The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum.

1941 Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history, murdering 13 266 Jews in the city of Iasi.

1951 David Kramer, singer, songwriter and playwright is born. He is well-known for his musicals about Coloured communities and the way he fought apartheid through the arts.

1967 London gets the world’s first ATM.

1976 A hijacked Air France Airbus with 248 passengers arrives at Entebbe, Uganda.

1986 Anne White shocks Wimbledon’s strict dress code for players by wearing a body-stocking rather than traditionally approved attire.

1988 Heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson – the ‘Baddest man on the planet’ – KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds and earns a record $22m. Just 10 punches were landed, eight by Tyson, two by Spinks, who never boxed again and announced his retirement a month later. Interestingly, Donald Trump bid a record $11m to stage the fight at the Atlantic City Convention Hall, next to his own Trump Plaza.

2009 The Tower of Hercules in northern Spain – the only preserved Roman lighthouse still in use – is declared a World Heritage Site.

2015 An explosion from flammable powder during a colour run in Taiwan injures 510.

2017 Tennis star Serena Williams poses pregnant and nude for the cover of Vanity Fair.

2017 Colombia’s rebel group FARC ends its armed existence after 52 years.

2018 The French government plans to bring back national service for 16-year-olds.

2022 Fifty-one migrants are found dead inside an abandoned truck in San Antonio, Texas, in extreme heat.