May 31 1900 - Boer War
Boers withdrew to Pretoria as British troops seized Johannesburg.
May 31 1901 - Boer War
Boers killed 174 British during guerrilla raid at Vlakfontein (now called Derby). Dinizulu refused British instructions to take up arms against the Boer. He was warned by Colonel Bottomley that under the current martial law he may be banished for such a refusal.
May 31 1902 - Boer War: PeaceBoers withdrew to Pretoria as British troops seized Johannesburg.
May 31 1901 - Boer War
Boers killed 174 British during guerrilla raid at Vlakfontein (now called Derby). Dinizulu refused British instructions to take up arms against the Boer. He was warned by Colonel Bottomley that under the current martial law he may be banished for such a refusal.
Boer delegated at the Vereeniging national delegation agreed 54 to 6 to accept the British proposals for peace. The Treaty of Vereeniging was signed by representatives of both sides at Melrose House, Pretoria.
May 31 1910
Union of South Africa is inaugurated, eight years after the declaration of peace at Vereeniging, from four colonies: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony (Oranje Vrij Staat), and the Transvaal (Zuid Afrikaansche Republick).
May 31 1943- World War II: North Africa
Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to represent France until the end of the war.
May 31 1947
Abd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escaped after an 11-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.
May 31 1966
Joseph-Désiré Mobutu's military government in the Congo had four former ministers sentenced to death for treason, murder, and an attempted coup. (Mobutu will change his name to Mobutu Sese Seko on 10 January 1972.)
May 31 1968
Biafra pulls out of peace talks with Nigeria.
May 31 1994 -The Rwanda Genocide
At least 500,000 are reported as dead from the fighting between Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda.
Source: africanhistory.about.com
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