Soweto Uprising Ignites: The Spark That Burned Apartheid
The 1976 Soweto uprising against mandatory Afrikaans instruction ignited a nationwide revolt that forced Desmond Tutu to champion an economic boycott and disinvestment despite the pain inflicted on black workers. This moral stance propelled him from Bishop of Lesotho into a global leadership role where he organized massive peaceful marches and relentlessly compared apartheid to Nazism, ultimately helping to dismantle the regime through rigorous non-violent advocacy.
September 13, 1989
37 years ago
What Else Happened on September 13
A triumph was Rome's ultimate military honor — a procession through the city, a general on a chariot, the crowd roaring. Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Rome's fifth…
Michelangelo began carving his David from a massive, neglected block of Carrara marble that two previous sculptors had abandoned as unworkable. By transforming …
The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus took over 100 years to build — started under Rome's Etruscan kings and finished just as the Republic began. Dedicating it …
a 40 km de Atenas (Grecia), Milcíades tiene a sus tropas frente a las del persa Datis como preparación para la batalla de Maratón.
en el norte de Inglaterra, los romanos comienzan la construcción del Muro de Adriano (hasta el año 132).
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