On this day – June 29
Posted on: Tue 29 Jun 2021
On this day in history:
In 1613, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England, burns down during a performance of “Henry VIII”.
A theatrical cannon misfired and set fire to the thatch of the Globe Theatre, engulfing the roof in flames.
Theatres were gradually closed down in the subsequent years, and that theatre, the Globe, closed in 1644 to make way for residential buildings.
On this day in 1949, South Africa begins implementing apartheid, which means no mixed marriages.
They made all individuals to register as a member of four officially defined racial groups and prohibiting sexual relationships between those classified as “white” on one hand and those classified as “non-white”
The ban was lifted in 1985.
Breakfast’s Tom Mann and Zoe Kounadis speak to Breakfast Producer Kate Johnson about what happened on this day in history.
Produced by Kate Johnson
Image source: Wikimedia
