On May 9, 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first Black president.
Nelson Mandela, right, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in Cape Town, South Africa, celebrate Mandela’s 1994 presidential victory.Today is Thursday, May 9, the 130th day of 2024. There are 236 days left in the year.In 1860, writer J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland.
In 1951, the U.S. conducted its first thermonuclear experiment as part of Operation Greenhouse by detonating a 225-kiloton device on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific nicknamed “George.” In 1970, President Richard Nixon made a surprise and impromptu pre-dawn visit to the Lincoln Memorial, where he chatted with a group of protesters who’d been resting on the Memorial steps after protests against the Vietnam War and the Kent State shootings.
In 2016, Filipinos went to the polls to elect Rodrigo Duterte, the controversial, tough-talking mayor of Davao city, to be their country’s next president.
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