🎉 Nelson Mandela International Day (1918)
Where: Mvezo, South Africa
📅 On This Day: July 18
July 18, 1918: Nelson Mandela International Day. 18 July is the birthday of Nelson Mandela, born in 1918 in the village of Mvezo, South Africa. The United Nations made it a special day and asks everyone to give 67 minutes to helping others. The number honours the 67 years Mandela worked for justice.
✨ More events on this day
- 1862 🧭 Climbers reached the top of the Dent Blanche for the first time in 1862, one of the highest and most beautiful peaks in the Swiss Alps.
- 1976 🏅 Fourteen-year-old Nadia Comăneci of Romania scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics in 1976, and the scoreboard could only show it as 1.00.
- 1992 💡 In 1992 a photo of Les Horribles Cernettes, a band of CERN workers, was taken and became the first photo ever posted on the World Wide Web.
🧠 Question of the day
How much time are people asked to give to helping others?
- 10 minutes
- 24 hours
- 67 minutes
Show the answer
Answer: 67 minutes
Questions
What happened on July 18?
July 18, 1918: Nelson Mandela International Day. It happened in Mvezo, South Africa.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela_International_Day