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February 11th, 1990
Nelson Mandela is freed in South Africa after [-----1-----] spends 27 years in captivity under the country’s apartheid rule.
4 years later, Mandela is elected South Africa’s president in its first [-----2-----] after apartheid is abolished.
1945
During the final month of World War II, the top Allied leaders sign the Yalta Accords in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The accords play a part in the [-----3-----] between Washington and Moscow as the two superpowers later enter the Cold War.
1979
In Iran, followers of Ayatollah Khomeini seize power, establishing an Islamic fundamentalist regime. Months later, dozens of Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Iran’s capital Tehran [-----4-----] and held captive for 444 days.
And 1847
Inventor Thomas Edison is born in Milan, Ohio. Among his many inventions, the electric light bulb, a [-----5-----] and a motion picture camera.
Today in History, February 11th, Carload Bradley, the Associated Press.
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