As Queen Elizabeth departs the earth, we take a little retrospect into the historic moments during her reign.
Let us start with;
1 In 1994, Nelson Mandela was elected South Africa’s first president after the collapse of apartheid in 1990. He was elected by the South African National Assembly after the African National Congress’s (ANC) victory on May 10, 1994.
2 The Queen sat alone at her husband Prince Philip’s funeral at St George’s Chapel on April 17, 2021, due to COVID-19 restrictions at the time. Philip, who died aged 99, was the longest-serving British consort in history.
3 On November 22, 1963, US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In 1965, the Queen erected a memorial monument at Runnymede in Berkshire, the site of the sealing of the Magna Carta.
4 In 1964, the passing of The Civil Rights Act was a catalyst in ending Jim Crow segregation laws in the US. It granted African American citizens access to public spaces and facilities
5 The Queen was one of 600 million television viewers worldwide who watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon on July 20, 1969.
6 The Queen witnessed Margaret Thatcher become the United Kingdom’s first female Prime Minister in 1979 and worked closely with her for 11 years until Thatcher resigned in 1990.
7 On April 25 and 26, 1986, the Chernobyl disaster occurred in what is now northern Ukraine, formerly the USSR, after a reactor at the nuclear power plant exploded and burned. It was the worst nuclear accident in history.
8 The Berlin Wall split East and West Berlin into occupation zones until borders were opened on November 9, 1989, and the wall was torn down by East German border guards and residents.
Above are some of the historic moments in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
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