On this day, April 9

Apartheid mastermind escapes death, looting follows Baghdad’s occupation, the wolves return, and masses line the streets for a funeral1483 Edward V succeeds his father, Edward IV, as king of England, but is never crowned, and disappears – presumed murdered after incarceration in the Tower of London with his brother, Richard (the ‘Princes in the Tower’).1679 A census shows that, 27 years after white settlers arrived at the Cape, there were 87 free men, 55 women, 117 children, 30 white male servants, 113 officials, 290 soldiers (70 with wives) and 191 slaves at the Cape (indigenous…