12 April

On 12 April 1929, The Daily Telegraph reported that Lord Barset's expedition to Antarctica was lost following their claim to have found a lost city of sentient reptiles. (COMIC: City of Devils, AUDIO: Frozen Time)

In 1877, at a small ceremony, Henry Rider Haggard read aloud the proclamation that announced the annexation of the Transvaal into the British Empire. (PROSE: White Man's Burden)