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Happy birthday Nelson Mandela – hero turns 94
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tiger Woods, the first black player to win a major golf title with a record-shattering 1997 Masters victory, remembered his first meeting with the ever-charismatic Mandela.
“He has such a presence and aura about him, unlike anyone I’ve ever met,” Woods said Tuesday at the British Open. “He has meant so much to so many people around the world, not just in South Africa.”
At the Tour de France, children will unfurl a banner to wish the icon happy birthday at the start of the stage in the southwestern town of Pau.
And the science world added an unusual tribute, naming a prehistoric woodpecker after the Nobel Peace Prize winner — the oldest type ever found in Africa.
Copyright 2012 AFP.
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