So Dina Rodrigues, the accused mastermind behind the baby Jordan killing, SMSed State witnesses. For what? No idea. But it’s still funny.

In other news, what extra-specially fun things happened on this day in history?

* 1652 – Jan van Riebeeck visits Robben Island for the first time.

* 1812 – Napoleon Bonaparte enters Moscow and Russians set fires throughout the city.

* 1959 – The Soviet space probe Luna 2 becomes the first man-made object to reach the moon and crashes onto the lunar surface.

* 1982 – Princess Grace of Monaco dies from the injuries she sustained in a car crash near Monte Carlo.

* 1989 – FW de Klerk is elected State President by the electoral college.

* 1996 – Bosnia holds its first post-war election.

* 2003 – Yetunde Price, a half-sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, is shot and killed in Compton, California, an impoverished suburb of Los Angeles.

All the others, as well as birthdays, here.