Nelson Mandela mediated between the MPLA and UNITA factions during the last years of Angola's civil war.

* 1962 – Nelson Mandela is jailed.

Some ANC members were upset by the actions of the MK, and refused to accept violence as necessary for the ending of Apartheid, but these individuals became a minority as the militant leaders such as Nelson Mandela gained significant popularity.

After facilitator Julius Nyerere's death in October 1999, the regional leaders appointed Nelson Mandela as Facilitator of the Arusha peace process.

* 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.

de Klerk allows the African National Congress to function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela.

He won the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize in 1991, the Prince of Asturias Award in 1992 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with Nelson Mandela for his role in the ending of apartheid.

He was one of the Deputy Presidents of South Africa during the presidency of Nelson Mandela until 1996, the last white person to hold the position to date.

Frederik de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos in January 1992.

He lifted the ban on the African National Congress ( ANC ) and released Nelson Mandela.

After the first free elections in 1994, de Klerk became deputy president in the government of national unity under Nelson Mandela, a post he kept until 1996.

" About Nelson Mandela he said, " When Mandela goes it will be a moment when all South Africans put away their political differences, will take hands, and will together honour maybe the biggest South African that has ever lived.

Nelson Mandela received his Freedom of the City here in 1993.

On 18 July 2007 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, and Desmond Tutu convened a group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems.

Nelson Mandela announced the formation of this new group, The Elders, in a speech he delivered on the occasion of his 89th birthday.

* While incarcerated on Robben Island prison, Nelson Mandela recited the poem to other prisoners and was empowered by its message of self-mastery.

* 1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.

* 1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.

* 1918 – Nelson Mandela, South African politician, President of South Africa and Nobel Prize laureate

* Nelson Mandela International Day

This diplomatic breakthrough followed years of negotiation, including a visit by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to Libya in December 1998, and personal appeals by Nelson Mandela.

Led by dictator Hastings Banda, Malawi was the only African country to maintain close relations with White-ruled South Africa until the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela.

* 1990 – Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.

* 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

Logan took him to Kansas roadhouses where he practiced steps in front of jukeboxes with choreographer Miriam Nelson.

Depew read law with William Nelson of Peekskill, New York from 1856 – 58 ; was admitted to the bar in March, 1858 ; opened an office and practiced in Peekskill until 1861 ; later engaged in the brokerage business in New York City as member of firm of Depew & Potter for a few months ; then resumed his law practice in Peekskill, but shortly afterwards moved to New York City ; in 1865 appointed and confirmed United States Minister to Japan, but declined the appointment to pursue his railroad career.

In the second half, French fans threw bottles and rocks onto the field and at American players and officials, wild brawls broke out in the stands, U. S. reserve Gideon Nelson was knocked unconscious after being hit in the face by a walking stick, and French fans invaded the pitch at the final whistle, leaving the French team, aided by the police, to protect the Americans.

Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.

* 1886 – American Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.

* September 4 – American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.

In this instance, the melee was planned ; Admiral Nelson used the superior fighting qualities of his crews to offset the greater French and Spanish numbers.

In 1799 King Ferdinand IV of Naples bestowed the honour of Duke of Bronte on Lord Nelson for fighting off the French Navy.

In the aftermath of the Mason City robbery, Nelson and John Paul Chase fled west to Reno, where their old bosses Bill Graham and Jim McKay were fighting a federal mail fraud case.

Upon arriving at the hospital, Nelson ends up fighting Squid in the hospital.

When Welsh returned to America he was intent on fighting Ritchie, having failed to meet both Nelson and Wolgast.

On 12 March 1795 he fought an indecisive fleet action at the Naval Battle of Genoa, in which the brunt of the fighting was borne by Captain Horatio Nelson, and some months later, now a full admiral, he again engaged a French fleet, at the Naval Battle of Hyères Islands on 13 July 1795, this time under conditions which might have permitted a decisive victory ; of this affair Nelson wrote home that it was a " miserable action.

At Chancellorsville, the principal part of the II Corps ' fighting fell on Hancock's Division, its skirmish line, under Colonel Nelson A.

They could also be manned by snipers armed with muskets or rifles ; Horatio Nelson was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar by a sniper firing from a fighting top of the Redoutable.

Bowen saw service with Horatio Nelson, and was killed fighting alongside him at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

" In later episodes, Nelson shows signs of being a tormented artist type, even submitting a film to the Sundance Film Festival about his life as a child living in poverty with a single, unfit mother and no strong father figure.

Nelson was also Gray's character's name on The Cosby Show as a child.

The Nelson boys were first played in the radio series by professional child actors until twelve-year-old Dave and eight-year-old Ricky joined the show on February 20, 1949 in the episode, " Invitation to Dinner.

Although Nelson agreed to provide $ 400 a month in child support, he did not provide for the child in his will.

Koppel, an only child, was born in Nelson, Lancashire, England, after his German Jewish parents fled Germany due to the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.

Sir William died in 1803 and Nelson returned to sea soon after to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, leaving Emma pregnant with their second child.

Nelson was born in Miami, the only child of Nannie Merle ( née Nelson ) and Clarence William Nelson.

On July 4, 1921, at the age of twelve, Nelson was arrested after accidentally shooting a fellow child in the jaw with a pistol he had found.

Riddle was born in Oradell, New Jersey, the only child of Marie Albertine Riddle and Nelson Smock Riddle, Sr., and later moved to nearby Ridgewood.

In 1810, the 2nd Baron Bridport married Lady Charlotte Mary Nelson, 3rd Duchess of Bronté, the only surviving child and heiress of William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson, elder brother of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.

He was the fourth child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and brother to John D. III, Nelson, Winthrop, David and Abby Rockefeller Mauze.

He was the third child of Adam Black Wilson and Helen Nelson Bauchop Wilson, and the first surviving early childhood.

During the month and their adventures, Nelson examines his life and past and befriends a fatherless child called Abner ( Liam Aiken ).

Elmer Bischoff, second child of John Bischoff and his wife, Elna ( née Elna Nelson ), grew up in Berkeley, California, the second-generation Californian son of a father of German descent and a mother of mixed Swedish-Ecuadoran origin.

Among the child actors cast as the Beardsley and North children in the film, several went on to greater success, including Tim Matheson ( billed here as Tim Matthieson ) who went on to play the character Otter in the more adult oriented comedy Animal House, Morgan Brittany ( billed here as Suzanne Cupito ) appeared in many episodes of Dallas, Mitch Vogel appeared in " The Reivers " with Steve McQueen for which Vogel received a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor nomination in 1970 and Tracy Nelson, daughter of actor / musician Ricky Nelson who eventually starred in the series Father Dowling Mysteries beside Tom Bosley who portrayed the doctor in this movie.

When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail.