Freedom Day (South Africa)

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven." Ludwig van Beethoven


TODAY IN HISTORY:

Ludwig van Beethoven 

Apartheid

• 1810 Beethoven composes Für Elise.
• 1950 In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
• 1994 The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

Louis Armstrong

Would you like to work as a cop for 24 hours? Watch the ABC News report. Is Louis Armstrong the greatest artist ever? Watch the BBC report. How must you properly pronounce Rhianna's name? Watch the CNN interview with the singer. What do you get when you mix a lawyer and a poet? Listen to the NPR report. Why do some South Korean protesters dislike Lady Gaga? Watch the Reuters report. Have you heard about the Walmart Mexico scandal? Read the Time report. What's going down at the US-Mexico border? Watch the Yahoo report.