July 18 1918
Birth of South African statesman and anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela at Mvezo, Umtata District, Transkei.
He was born Rolihlahla Mandela on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosa-speaking Thembu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo. (In South Africa, Mandela is often called by his clan name, Madiba.) His father, who was Mvezo’s chief, died when he was nine, and the young Mandela was adopted by a high-ranking Thembu regent who groomed the boy for tribal leadership. It was while studying at a local missionary school that he was dubbed Nelson by a teacher, according to the then-common practice of giving African students English names.
Birth of South African statesman and anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela at Mvezo, Umtata District, Transkei.
He was born Rolihlahla Mandela on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosa-speaking Thembu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo. (In South Africa, Mandela is often called by his clan name, Madiba.) His father, who was Mvezo’s chief, died when he was nine, and the young Mandela was adopted by a high-ranking Thembu regent who groomed the boy for tribal leadership. It was while studying at a local missionary school that he was dubbed Nelson by a teacher, according to the then-common practice of giving African students English names.
July 18 1935
Emperor Haile Selassi told the Abyssinian parliament in Addis Ababa that it is "better to die for freedom than to live as a slave" and that he would lay down his own life for the country. "For forty years, Italy had desired to conquer our country, but Abyssinia knows how to fight to the last man to preserve the country's independence".
July 18 1978
The Organisation of African Unity, OAU, summit at Khartoum, Sudan, was attended by 30 African nations.
July 18 1998
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela marries Graca Machel, widow of Samora Moisés Machel the former president of Mozambique (who was killed in a mysterious plane crash on 19 Oct 1986).
Source: history.com, africanhistory.about.com
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