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Crowds cheer as a police van brings prisoners to the Drill Hall, in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 31, 1956, for the start of the "Treason Trial." One man has climbed onto the step of the van top shout encouragement to the inmates. Nelson Mandela was among the people arrested and standing trial. Mandela was banned from public speaking, arrested and jailed multiple times throughout the 1950s. <nobr>(AP Photo) #
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Eight men, among them anti-apartheid leader and member of the African National Congress (ANC) Nelson Mandela, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia trial leave the Palace of Justice in Pretoria, on June 16, 1964 with their fists raised in defiance through the barred windows of the prison car. The eight men were accused of conspiracy, sabotage and treason. <nobr>(AFP/Getty Images) #</nobr>
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The cell. Thirty years after he was imprisoned, African National Congress (ANC) president Nelson Mandela stares out of the window of the prison cell he occupied on Robben Island for much of his 27 year incarceration, on February 11, 1994. <nobr>(Reuters/Patrick de Noirmont) #</nobr>
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The stage at Wembley Stadium, London, on June 11, 1988, during a performance by the band Eurythmics at the benefit concert for Nelson Mandela. The 10-hour-long concert "Nelson Mandela, Freedom at 70" was watched by 70,000 fans in the stadium and was televised to 60 countries worldwide. <nobr>(AP Photo/Allen) #</nobr>
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela studies messages to her then-husband anti-apartheid leader and member of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela, at his 70th birthday held in Johannesburg, on July 18, 1988. <nobr>(Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images) #</nobr>
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu of Cape Town smiles as he gestures from a platform during the Nelson Mandela Freedom Rally in London's Hyde Park, on July 17, 1988 - on the eve of the jailed African National Congress leader's 70 birthday. A crowd estimated at 250,000 attended the rally. <nobr>(AP Photo/Gill Allen) #</nobr>
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South African State President F.W. de Klerk, announces the unconditional release of jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela, the unbanning of the ANC, PAC and South African Communist party and the lifting of the state of emergency during parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 2, 1990. <nobr>(AP Photo/Dana Le Roux-Argus) #</nobr>
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Newly-free Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela salute as they enter Soweto's Soccer City stadium, in South Africa, on February 13, 1990. 120,000 thousand people packed the venue to hear his speech. <nobr>(AP Photo/Udo Weitz) #</nobr>
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Nelson Mandela hugs a young Sowetan girl as he visits the black township near Johannesburg, in October of 1990. <nobr>(Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images) #</nobr>
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South African leader of the ANC, Nelson Mandela raises his fist after addressing a crowd of about 15,000 people from the balcony of the city theater in Amsterdam, on June 16, 1990. <nobr>(AP Photo/Rob Croese) #</nobr>
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Wall Street area workers wave and throw ticker tape as Nelson Mandela's vehicle passes during a parade through lower Manhattan, on June 20, 1990 in New York. <nobr>(AP Photo/Susan Ragan) #</nobr>
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Rock star Bob Geldof shares a joke with African National Congress President Nelson Mandela during a visit in Johannesburg, on July 15, 1991. Geldof, the originator of the Live-Aid benefit rock concert, was on a four day visit to South Africa. <nobr>(AP Photo/John Parkin) #</nobr>
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From left, F.W. de Klerk, President Bill Clinton, and Nelson Mandela appear at ceremonies honoring the two South African leaders with the Philadelphia Liberty Medal at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, on July 4, 1993. <nobr>(AP Photo/Greg Gibson) #</nobr>
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Nelson Mandela, and South African President Frederik de Klerk display their Nobel Prizes after being awarded jointly for their work to end apartheid peacefully, in Oslo, Norway, on December 9, 1993. <nobr>(Gerard Julien/AFP/Getty Images) #</nobr>
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African National Congress supporters welcome ANC President Nelson Mandela as he arrives at a rally in Durban, on April 24, 1994. <nobr>(Reuters) #</nobr>
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Nelson Mandela casts his ballot in the presidential election at Ohlange High school in Inanda near Durban, on April 27, 1994. The election was the first in South Africa's history with universal adult suffrage. <nobr>(Reuters) #</nobr>
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South African Defense Force helicopters carrying the new South African flag fly over Pretoria during the inauguration ceremony for the country's first black president, Nelson Mandela in Pretoria, South Africa, on May 10, 1994. The inauguration finished with a thunderous cannon salute, warplanes trailing smoke in the national colors of red, white, blue, black, green and gold, and these helicopters carrying the redesigned flag. <nobr>(AP Photo) #</nobr>
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Nelson Mandela takes the oath of office in Pretoria, on May 10, 1994 to become South Africa's first black President. <nobr>(AP Photo/David Brauchli) #</nobr>
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President Nelson Mandela, flanked by Second Deputy F.W. de klerk (left) and First Deputy President Thabo Mbeki (right) addresses a crowd from behind bullet-proof glass in front of the Union Building during inaugural ceremonies, on May 10, 1994. <nobr>(Reuters/Juda Ngwenya) #</nobr>
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President Nelson Mandela and Betsie Verwoerd, widow of the assassinated architect of the failed policy of apartheid, prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, talk to reporters August 15 after meeting over coffee and cakes in Orania, a whites-only enclave near Kimberley, on August 15, 1995. <nobr>(Reuters) #</nobr>
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South African President Nelson Mandela and U.S. President Bill Clinton look out through the bars of cell number 5 where Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years on Robben Island, on March 27, 1998. Clinton said he was glad Mandela survived the experience without "having his heart turned into stone." <nobr>(Reuters) #</nobr>
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South African President Nelson Mandela is accompanied by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in a carriage ride to a Buckingham Palace lunch on the first day of his state visit to Britain, on July 9, 1996. <nobr>(Reuters) #</nobr>
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South African President Nelson Mandela meets a member of the South African Music Village following a tree planting ceremony in St James Park on the second day of Mandela's state visit to Britain, in London, on July 10, 1996. <nobr>(Reuters/Dan Chung) #</nobr>
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South African President Nelson Mandela (R) and Pope John Paul II listen to national anthems after they met at Johannesburg International Airport, at the start of the pope's first official visit to the country, on September 16, 1995. <nobr>(Reuters) #</nobr>
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South African President Nelson Mandela and United States first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and daughter Chelsea Clinton, at a meeting in Cape Town, on March 20 1997. <nobr>(AP Photo/Doug Mills) #</nobr>
Crowds cheer as a police van brings prisoners to the Drill Hall, in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 31, 1956, for the start of the "Treason Trial." One man has climbed onto the step of the van top shout encouragement to the inmates. Nelson Mandela was among the people arrested and standing trial. Mandela was banned from public speaking, arrested and jailed multiple times throughout the 1950s. <nobr>(AP Photo) #
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Eight men, among them anti-apartheid leader and member of the African National Congress (ANC) Nelson Mandela, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia trial leave the Palace of Justice in Pretoria, on June 16, 1964 with their fists raised in defiance through the barred windows of the prison car. The eight men were accused of conspiracy, sabotage and treason. <nobr>(AFP/Getty Images) #
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The cell. Thirty years after he was imprisoned, African National Congress (ANC) president Nelson Mandela stares out of the window of the prison cell he occupied on Robben Island for much of his 27 year incarceration, on February 11, 1994. <nobr>(Reuters/Patrick de Noirmont) #
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The stage at Wembley Stadium, London, on June 11, 1988, during a performance by the band Eurythmics at the benefit concert for Nelson Mandela. The 10-hour-long concert "Nelson Mandela, Freedom at 70" was watched by 70,000 fans in the stadium and was televised to 60 countries worldwide. <nobr>(AP Photo/Allen) #
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela studies messages to her then-husband anti-apartheid leader and member of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela, at his 70th birthday held in Johannesburg, on July 18, 1988. <nobr>(Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images) #
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu of Cape Town smiles as he gestures from a platform during the Nelson Mandela Freedom Rally in London's Hyde Park, on July 17, 1988 - on the eve of the jailed African National Congress leader's 70 birthday. A crowd estimated at 250,000 attended the rally. <nobr>(AP Photo/Gill Allen) #
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South African State President F.W. de Klerk, announces the unconditional release of jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela, the unbanning of the ANC, PAC and South African Communist party and the lifting of the state of emergency during parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 2, 1990. <nobr>(AP Photo/Dana Le Roux-Argus) #
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Newly-free Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela salute as they enter Soweto's Soccer City stadium, in South Africa, on February 13, 1990. 120,000 thousand people packed the venue to hear his speech. <nobr>(AP Photo/Udo Weitz) #
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Nelson Mandela hugs a young Sowetan girl as he visits the black township near Johannesburg, in October of 1990. <nobr>(Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images) #
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South African leader of the ANC, Nelson Mandela raises his fist after addressing a crowd of about 15,000 people from the balcony of the city theater in Amsterdam, on June 16, 1990. <nobr>(AP Photo/Rob Croese) #
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Wall Street area workers wave and throw ticker tape as Nelson Mandela's vehicle passes during a parade through lower Manhattan, on June 20, 1990 in New York. <nobr>(AP Photo/Susan Ragan) #
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Rock star Bob Geldof shares a joke with African National Congress President Nelson Mandela during a visit in Johannesburg, on July 15, 1991. Geldof, the originator of the Live-Aid benefit rock concert, was on a four day visit to South Africa. <nobr>(AP Photo/John Parkin) #
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From left, F.W. de Klerk, President Bill Clinton, and Nelson Mandela appear at ceremonies honoring the two South African leaders with the Philadelphia Liberty Medal at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, on July 4, 1993. <nobr>(AP Photo/Greg Gibson) #
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Nelson Mandela, and South African President Frederik de Klerk display their Nobel Prizes after being awarded jointly for their work to end apartheid peacefully, in Oslo, Norway, on December 9, 1993. <nobr>(Gerard Julien/AFP/Getty Images) #
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African National Congress supporters welcome ANC President Nelson Mandela as he arrives at a rally in Durban, on April 24, 1994. <nobr>(Reuters) #
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Nelson Mandela casts his ballot in the presidential election at Ohlange High school in Inanda near Durban, on April 27, 1994. The election was the first in South Africa's history with universal adult suffrage. <nobr>(Reuters) #
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South African Defense Force helicopters carrying the new South African flag fly over Pretoria during the inauguration ceremony for the country's first black president, Nelson Mandela in Pretoria, South Africa, on May 10, 1994. The inauguration finished with a thunderous cannon salute, warplanes trailing smoke in the national colors of red, white, blue, black, green and gold, and these helicopters carrying the redesigned flag. <nobr>(AP Photo) #
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Nelson Mandela takes the oath of office in Pretoria, on May 10, 1994 to become South Africa's first black President. <nobr>(AP Photo/David Brauchli) #
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President Nelson Mandela, flanked by Second Deputy F.W. de klerk (left) and First Deputy President Thabo Mbeki (right) addresses a crowd from behind bullet-proof glass in front of the Union Building during inaugural ceremonies, on May 10, 1994. <nobr>(Reuters/Juda Ngwenya) #
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President Nelson Mandela and Betsie Verwoerd, widow of the assassinated architect of the failed policy of apartheid, prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, talk to reporters August 15 after meeting over coffee and cakes in Orania, a whites-only enclave near Kimberley, on August 15, 1995. <nobr>(Reuters) #
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South African President Nelson Mandela and U.S. President Bill Clinton look out through the bars of cell number 5 where Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years on Robben Island, on March 27, 1998. Clinton said he was glad Mandela survived the experience without "having his heart turned into stone." <nobr>(Reuters) #
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South African President Nelson Mandela is accompanied by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in a carriage ride to a Buckingham Palace lunch on the first day of his state visit to Britain, on July 9, 1996. <nobr>(Reuters) #
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South African President Nelson Mandela meets a member of the South African Music Village following a tree planting ceremony in St James Park on the second day of Mandela's state visit to Britain, in London, on July 10, 1996. <nobr>(Reuters/Dan Chung) #
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South African President Nelson Mandela (R) and Pope John Paul II listen to national anthems after they met at Johannesburg International Airport, at the start of the pope's first official visit to the country, on September 16, 1995. <nobr>(Reuters) #
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South African President Nelson Mandela and United States first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and daughter Chelsea Clinton, at a meeting in Cape Town, on March 20 1997. <nobr>(AP Photo/Doug Mills) #
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