Mandela sent to Robben Island
1964
At the end of the Rivonia Trial, Nelson Mandela told a Pretoria courtroom he was prepared to die for the ideal of a free society. The judge sentenced him to life. On Robben Island, off Cape Town, he broke rocks in a quarry and studied law by candle. He would spend twenty-seven years in prison and walk out to become president.
In context
Also in 1964 (6 other events on record)
- Civil Rights Act signed · North America · Politics
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution · Southeast Asia · War
- Beatles hit America · North America · Culture
- China tests its first atomic bomb · East Asia · War
- Cigarettes declared dangerous · North America · Science
- Harlem riots · North America · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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