Barack Hussein Obama

•   life turning point: Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review.

• In May 2002, Obama commissioned a poll to assess his prospects in a 2004 U.S. Senate race.
•  He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000.

achivement turning point:

•  He began his presidential campaign in 2007 and, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic Party primaries to receive the presidential nomination. He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months after his inauguration, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

•  After a close primary campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic Party primaries to receive the presidential nomination.

• Obama was reelected president in November 2012, defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney, and was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2013.

Short Biography Nelson Mandela

turning point: 

• When his father died, Mandela and was groomed for becoming chief of his local tribe.
• Whilst at university Nelson Mandela became increasingly aware of the unjust nature of South African Society. 
•  In 1944 Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League, whose Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC in 1949.
• However in 1960 the Sharpeville massacre of 63 black South African’s changed the whole political climate.
• However by 1962 Mandela had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison. 
• Although negotiations were painfully slow and difficult, they eventually led to Mandela’s release in 1990. 

achievements: 

• In 1952 Mandela and Tambo opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa. 
• However on 10 May 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on and was President until June 1999.
• His advocacy of reconciliation led to international acclaim and importantly the trust of the White African population.
• In 1993 Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prizejointly with F.W. De Klerk.

Timeline

Fred Hollows

• 1929- was born in New Zealand.
• 1960- got a job in Australia.
• 1965- was head of the Eye Department at a Sydney hospital.
• 1970- helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians.
• 1973- his team traveled all over outback Australia.
• 1980- was travelling all over the world to help set up eye health programs in developing countries.
• 1989- knew he wouldn't live to see all his ideas happen.
• 1993- died at home surrounded by his friends, his wife Gabi and their five children. 

Timeline

Sir Douglas Nicholls (Pastor)
• 1906- born in NSW
• 1913- saw his 16 years old sister Hilda forcibly taken from his family by the police.
• 1919- worked with his uncle as a tar boy and general hand on the sheepstations, and he live with the shearers.
• 1927-  played before a crowed of 9000 people and was a huge success.
• 1928- won the Waranknabeal Gift.
• 1929- was a member of premiership team and played the club for 5 years.
• 1932- joined Fitzroy.
• 1935- was the first Aboriginal player to be selected to play for the Victorian Inter-state team.
• 1939- was forced to retired because of his injury knee.
• 1940- was back at Northcote as a non-playing coach.
• 1941- received his call up notice and joined the 29th Battalion.
• 1942- was released from his unit to assist with problems in the Fitzroy Aboriginal Community. 
• 1957- became a field officer for the Aboriginal Advancement  League.
• 1962- was chosen by the Father's day Council of Australian as Victoria's Father of the year.
• 1968- received an Order of  British Empire award and became a member of  the new Ministry  
of  Aboriginal Affairs in Victoria.
• 1972- became the first Aboriginal person to be knighted and his wife Gladys traveled to London to received honour.
• 1976- appointed as 28th Government of South Australia.
• 1977- suffered severe stroke and was forced to retired.