It was on this day that Nelson Mandela was released from his prison after 27 years.
After visiting the Museum of Human Rights and seeing the Mandela you really gain new appreciation for the suffering he went through.
Another person who brought a lot of smiles was Leslie Nielsen. Canadian actor you may remember from The Naked Gun or Airplane... he was born today in 1926.
Sadly, he passed in 2010.
This day in 1650 Rene Descartes passed away.
He was a very well known mathematician and philosopher (in those days you tended to be both) and came up with the idea of how to plot integers on a plane - what we now call a cartesian plane.
He also coined the phrase "Cogito ergo sum" - I think therefore I am.
Speaking of some math and science, it's International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
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