What happened October 1901 AD

On 19 October 1901, Alberto Santos-Dumont, flying his No.6 airship, won a 100,000-franc prize offered by Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe for the first person to make a flight from St. Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back in less than half an hour.

Several battles of importance were fought here between September 1901 and March 1902. at Driefontein on 24 October