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Nelson Mandela

President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)

12 dated entries naming Nelson Mandela, drawn from 9 separate years between 1918 CE and 2013 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1918July 18 – Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2013)source
  • 1962August 5 – Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela is arrested by the South African government near Howick, and charged with incitement to rebellion. On November 7, he is sentenced to imprisonment.source
  • 1964April 20 – Nelson Mandela makes his "I Am Prepared to Die" speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial, a key event for the anti-apartheid movement.source
  • 1964June 12 – Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison.source
  • 1980June 10 – Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.source
  • 1990February 11 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.source
  • 1991January 29 – In South Africa, Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party agree to end violence between the two organizations.source
  • 1992February 3 – South African State President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, African National Congress leader, are jointly awarded the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.source
  • 1994April 27 – South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of the last vestiges of apartheid. Nelson Mandela wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the following month.source
  • 1994May 10 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.source

21st century

  • 2013December 5 – Nelson Mandela, 95, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, President (1994–1999), lung infection.source

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