![]() ![]() ![]() In 2013, Nelson Mandela was laid to rest in his childhood hometown, ending a 10-day mourning period for South Africa’s first Black president. In 2012, a day after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama declared that “every parent in America has a heart heavy with hurt” and said it was time to “take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this.” Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Feller died in Cleveland at age 92. Movie producer, director and writer Blake Edwards, 88, died in Santa Monica, Calif. Time magazine named Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, its Person of the Year. In 2010, the UN Security Council gave a unanimous vote of confidence to the government of Iraq by lifting 19-year-old sanctions on weapons and civilian nuclear power. ![]() In 2009, evangelist Oral Roberts died in Newport Beach, Calif., at age 91. In 2001, with a crash and a large dust cloud, a 50-foot tall section of steel - the last standing piece of the World Trade Center’s facade - was brought down in New York. In 2000, the long-troubled Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was closed for good. In 1989, a popular uprising began in Romania that resulted in the downfall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. ![]()
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