In June Nelson Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison. Mandela would remain imprisoned (there and in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison) until 1990.
Zulu
The period drama and war film Zulu is a British film that depicts the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift between a detachment of the British A...
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Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (1925-2014) was an American pilot and the first woman to fly solo around the world. She flew a si... -
At 6.35 pm on January 1 the premiere of the half hour British TV programme Top of the Pops was shown for the first time. Acts performing inc... -
It was in this year that Albert Henry DeSalvo (1931-1973) was arrested. He was an American rapist and serial killer in Boston, Massachusetts...
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