Nelson Mandela & Wangari Maathai

Did Nelson Mandela and Wangari Maathai live at the same time?

Yes. Nelson Mandela and Wangari Maathai lived at the same time for 71 years, from 1940 to 2011.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Nelson Mandela · Wangari Maathai · Born in 1918 · Born in 1940

Nelson Mandela

Politics & Leadership

Anti-apartheid hero, South African President

Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai

Activism & Social Change

Kenyan environmentalist, first African woman Nobel laureate

19182013

Nelson Mandela

Wangari Maathai

Nelson Mandela

Politics & Leadership

Born in Mvezo

Died in Houghton Estate

Wangari Maathai

Activism & Social Change

Born in Nyeri

Died in Nairobi

World Events During Their Overlap

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

Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
Nelson Mandela (Q8023) — Wikidata
Wangarĩ Maathai — Wikipedia
Wangari Maathai (Q46795) — Wikidata