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Margaret Thatcher & Nelson Mandela

Did Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela live at the same time?

Yes. Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela lived at the same time for 88 years, from 1925 to 2013.[1][2][3][4]

Margaret Thatcher · Nelson Mandela · Born in 1925 · Born in 1918

Nelson Mandela and Margaret Thatcher were born 7 years apart, and both died in 2013.
In 1987 Thatcher called the ANC a typical terrorist organization; she met Mandela in London in 1990, after his release.
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
1925–2013
Politics & Leadership
The Iron Lady, British Prime Minister
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
1918–2013
Politics & Leadership
Anti-apartheid hero, South African President
19182013
Margaret Thatcher
Nelson Mandela
Margaret Thatcher
Politics & Leadership
Born in Grantham
Died in The Ritz London
Nelson Mandela
Politics & Leadership
Born in Mvezo
Died in Houghton Estate

World Events During Their Overlap

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1936 Spanish Civil War begins
1939 World War II begins
1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII
1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy
1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends
1945 United Nations founded
1947 India and Pakistan gain independence
1948 State of Israel established
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted
1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed
1950 Korean War begins
1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure
1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957 Sputnik launched; Space Age begins
1959 Cuban Revolution; Castro takes power
1961 Berlin Wall constructed
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1964 Civil Rights Act signed in the United States
1969 Apollo 11: first humans walk on the Moon
1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and independence
1973 1973 oil crisis
1975 Fall of Saigon; Vietnam War ends
1979 Iranian Revolution
1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989 Tiananmen Square protests
1990 Nelson Mandela released from prison
1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1994 Rwandan genocide
1994 End of apartheid; South Africa holds first free elections
1997 Dolly the Sheep cloned
1998 Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland
2001 September 11 attacks
2003 Human Genome Project completed
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
2008 Global financial crisis
2010 Arab Spring begins
2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster

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Sources

  1. Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
  2. Margaret Thatcher (Q7416) — Wikidata
  3. Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
  4. Nelson Mandela (Q8023) — Wikidata