18-07-2025
Madiba is born and ties the knot 80 years later
On this day in history, July 18
In this video grab, Nelson Mandela and his new bride, Graca Machel, leave the wedding venue shortly after their nuptials on this 80th birthday.
64AD The Great Fire of Rome begins. It destroys 70% of the city, but Nero never did fiddle while Rome burned, he did dilly-dally.
1914 Mohandas Gandhi, after successfully leading a passive resistance in this country, leaves Cape Town for India.
1915 The Second Battle of Isonzo, between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies, begins. There are 80 000 casualties.
1918 Rholihlahla Mandela is born into the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, Transkei. The world comes to know him as Nelson Mandela.
1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf. The first title was the more catchy Four and a Half Years Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice.
1926 Author and journalist Herman Charles Bosman (Herman Malan) shoots and kills his stepbrother, David Russell, during a quarrel.
1936 The Spanish Civil War begins.
1938 Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan arrives in Ireland – he had left New York for California.
1976 Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics.
1988 Terrorists kill 9 people on a cruise ship.
1992 A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes (The Horrible CERN Girls – an all-female parody pop group) is taken, it becomes the first photo posted to the World Wide Web.
1997 SA's diminutive 'Baby Jake' Matlala wins the IBA world junior flyweight boxing title.
1996 At the Battle of Mullaitivu, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture a Sri Lankan Army base, killing over 1 200 soldiers.
1998 President Nelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday.
1999 SA breaststroke swimmer Penny Heyns sets the first two of four world records in two days in southern California.
2018 Elon Musk apologises for calling a British cave diver in Thai rescue, 'pedo guy' after criticism and a fall in Tesla stock price.
2019 The children's songs, Baby Shark and Raining Tacos, are used by the City of West Palm Beach, Florida, to drive away homeless people from the waterfront (presumably everyone else as well).
2019 One of world's earliest mosques, 1 200 years old, is discovered in Israel's Negev Desert.
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