Today is Wednesday, May 8, the 129th day of 2024. There are 237 days left in the year. On May 8, 1996, South Africa took another step from apartheid to democracy by adopting a constitution that guaranteed equal rights for Blacks and whites.
Sign designating the use of amenities and installations for exclusive use of white people, during Apartheid in South Africa, written in English and Afrikaans.Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1973, militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered. In 1993, the Muslim-led government of Bosnia-Herzegovina and rebel Bosnian Serbs signed an agreement for a nationwide cease-fire. In 2013, a jury in Phoenix convicted Jodi Arias of first-degree murder in the 2008 death of her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander .
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