Today is Thursday, May 2, the 123rd day of 2024. There are 243 days left in the year. On May 2, 1994, Nelson Mandela claimed victory in the wake of South Africa’s first democratic elections; President F.W. de Klerk acknowledged defeat. In 1863, during the Civil War, Confederate Gen.
This is the official photo of Nelson Mandela casting his vote in the 1994 elections. It was the first time Mandela had voted in his life. It was taken at Ohlange School, Inanda, Durban, by the IEC’s official photographer, Paul Weinberg.Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1997, Tony Blair, whose new Labour Party crushed John Major’s long-reigning Conservatives in a national election, became at age 43 Britain’s youngest prime minister in 185 years. In 2011, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, who’d been killed hours earlier in a raid by elite American forces at his Pakistan compound, was buried at sea.) was found shot to death at his home in Oceanside, California, a suicide.
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