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Akwasi Osei

Updated: Jan 31, 2023

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is finally released from prison after twenty-seven years in prison on this day in 1990. It was the beginning of the death of the apartheid system. He became the first President of South Africa in May 1994.



 


On this day in 1958, Registered nurse Ruth Carol Taylor became the first Black flight attendant in the US. Her maiden voyage was aboard a Mohawk Airlines flight from Ithaca to New York City. She was selected from a pool of 800 Black applicants.









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