This Day in History

1920 Jujiro Matsuda forms Toyo Cork Kogyo, a business that makes cork, in Hiroshima, Japan; just over a decade later the company produces its first automobile and changes its name to Mazda

1956 An unidentified suspected white supremacist terrorist bombs the Montgomery home of Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

1987 The Minister of Law and Order issues a message to the newspapers denying investigative television programme Carte Blanche permission to quote exiled ANC president Oliver Tambo