![]() Immediately following his release from prison, he visited Londolozi as a guest of the Varty family and stayed for weeks as part of a recuperation period before resuming his role as leader of the African National Congress. Mandela taught the Londolozi family first-hand about his thinking and way of living. It’s a reminder that Mandela’s work is not yet done - and that we need to continue his journey in a positive direction. His birthday is now known as Nelson Mandela International Day, a United Nations holiday that commemorates his service and sacrifice and his symbol of hope. He passed away in 2013 at age 95 but his name and story will always live on. After leaving office in 1999, Mandela spent the rest of his life working to help poverty and raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. Mandela led the country as president for five years. Over his 27 years spent in prison, Madiba became the globe’s best-known political prisoner. Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from apartheid into a time of reconciliation and majority rule. He went from starting the nation’s first black law firm in 1964, to the world’s most famous political prisoner of 27 years from South Africa’s first black president to being awarded a Noble Peace Prize. Nelson Mandela was an activist who dedicated most of his life to dismantling racism. Madiba’s birthday is about celebrating his life and, once again, like a compass, returning to his lessons and letting his knowledge guide us through our years as South Africans and as people of the world. Today is the birthday of Nelson Mandela– he would have been 104 today. In 1992, a picture of Les Horribles Cernettes (a pop group parody) was taken, which became the first-ever photo posted on the World Wide Web.Īnd, most importantly to us, in 1918 a wonderful man was born – a man by the name of Nelson Mandela. ![]() In 1976, Nadia Comăneci, age 14, becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 (doing so 7 times) at the Montreal Games In 1980, Billy Joel’s “Glass Houses” album tops US charts, featuring “It’s Still Rock ‘n’ Roll to Me” ![]() On this day in…Ħ4, the Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero
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