1838 - During the Boers Great Trek, Boer leader Piet Retief was murdered by the Zulu king Dingane's warriors.
1922 - The Washington Conference between the United States, France, Japan, Italy and Britain ended with agreement on restricting use of poison gas and submarine warfare.
1952 - Queen Elizabeth II succeeded to the British throne upon the death of her father, King George VI.
1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard took a six-iron stashed inside his spacecraft took a swing at three golf balls on the surface of the moon. Shepard whiffed the first swing. The others were good shots that went a few hundred yards in space's vacuum. Because his moonwalk suit was so bulky, he didn’t get enough of a swing to launch the golf balls into orbit. But he did get a couple of divots.
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Following the murder of Piet Retief the Zulus attacked the the nearby Boer camp on 16 December 1838 in which become knowen as the "Slag van Bloedrivier" (the battle of blood river - because of the colour of the river stained red by the blood of the slain zulu warriors) where some 100 Boers defeated an estimated 10000 Zulu warriors.
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