Events
- 31 May - South Africa adopts a new national flag, based upon the so-called Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace the Red Ensign.
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“There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
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