3rd
1940 Director of Education and Government
Information Officer, B. H. Easter, officially opens The
Government Broadcasting Station. The first ever local
news report is then read by well known journalist, Clyde Hoyte. The station will broadcast from 5:00 to 6:00pm
daily, except Sundays, and news reports will be supplied
by the offices of
The Gleaner.
6th
1944 Montgomery Bernard
(Monty) Alexander is born in Kingston.
7th
1692 Port Royal is destroyed by
earthquake.
8th
1844 A local census declares Jamaica's population
to be 377,400. This is made up of 15,729 White; 68,576
Coloured and 293,128 Black.
11th
1940
News is received that
Marcus Garvey has died of a
stroke at 3:30pm in London. Because of wartime
conditions his body will not be flown home but he will
be cremated in London.
1942
Arthur Wint sets
a new Jamaican record for the 400m during the JAAA's
trials for the international track and field series.
Herb McKenley wins both the 100yd and 200m events.
1950 The first
edition of The Children's Own newspaper is published by
the Gleaner Company. The cost of this newspaper for
children is one farthing.
1972 Prime
Minister
Michael Manley marries
Beverley Anderson in a
private ceremony held at his mother's home.
12th
1964 Jamaican Rhodes Scholar Anthony Abrahams is
elected President of the Oxford Union Society. He is the
second Jamaican to hold this honour, the first was
another Rhodes Scholar, Roy Dickson, in 1956.
18th
1923 Marcus Garvey is found guilty in a New York
court of using the mail to defraud. The indictment
against Garvey was that he continued to sell shares in
the
Black Star Line after he was aware that the company
had become insolvent.
22nd
1939
Howard Cooke and Ivy Tyce are married at the
Mico Chapel in Kingston.
23rd
1941 The first six Jamaicans to volunteer are
recruited and go to England for training in the Royal
Air Force. They are Dudley Thompson, John W. Clarke, F.
H. Horsburgh, O. C. Launcelot, C. V. Matthews and O. H.
Robinson.
24th
1692 The survivors of the Great Earthquake at Port Royal
found a new settlement which is called
Kingston.
25th
1921
Norman Manley and
Edna Swithenbank are
married at a Registry Office in Kilburn, England.
Witnesses are the groom's sister, Vera and the bride's
sister, Lena.
1952 Representatives of Jamaican and other
Caribbean Governments, along with hundreds of cattle
farmers attend the Bodles Agricultural Station near Old
Harbour in St Catherine to see the introduction of the
Jamaica Hope, the first new breed of cattle to be bred
in the Western Hemisphere.
T. P. Lecky is paid tribute
for his determination in developing this new breed.
27th
1935
Byron Lee is born in Manchester to Oscar and
Evelyn Lee.
28th
1792 A Petition is sent to the Governor by the free
coloured people of Jamaica asking to be placed on an
equal footing with whites in every respect.
1892
Clifford Campbell is born in Westmoreland
1911 Norman Manley of Jamaica College sets records for
both the 100 and 200 yd at the Inter-Secondary Schools
Championship at Sabina Park. In all Manley gains five
firsts and one second and is the champion athlete of the
event.
30th
1938
The Knibb Memorial Chapel in Falmouth,
Trelawney is re-opened after extensive repairs. The
Chapel which was built by William Knibb between
1835-1837 to replace one burnt in riots of 1831 is where
the famous Midnight Service to celebrate Emancipation
was held on 31st July 1838.
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