2014 In Nigeria gunmen suspected of being Boko Haram Islamists reportedly killed as many as 63 people, mostly Christians, in Izghe village, Borno state.
2014 Renaud Lavillenie, French champion pole vaulter, breaks the previous height record, held by athlete Sergey Bubka, at the Pole Vault Stars meet in Donetsk, Ukraine; Lavillenie reached 6.16 meters indoors, exceeding Bubka's world record of 6.15 m indoors achieved in 1993
2013 British catering firm Compass Group and Whitbread, one of the country's largest hotel chains, find horse DNA in products sold as "beef"
2012 In Nigeria attackers stormed a federal prison with heavy gunfire and explosives, killing one guard and freeing 119 inmates in Koton-Karifi, Kogi state.
2012 Dr. Isatou Touray spoke on “The Controversies of Female Genital Mutilation” as part of an ECCE Speakers Series event in Brookens Auditorium
2011 In central Nigeria a police officer arguing with a merchant was stabbed to death in a market in Jos and at least two others were killed during the latest violence to hit the region beset by sectarian fighting.
2011 Inflation in the People's Republic of China reaches 4.9%
2011 In Malaysia, Islamic morality police arrest more than 80 muslims to prevent them from celebrating Valentine's Day
2003 Nigerian oil workers launched an indefinite strike that could shut down crude exports in the world’s 6th largest oil exporter.
2003 Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq.
2001 Nigeria was the world’s 12th largest oil producer. 1999 Nigeria Gen'l. Olusegun Obasanjo (61) won the nomination for president by the People's Democratic Party.
2001 Nigeria was the world’s 12th largest oil producer. 1999 Nigeria Gen'l. Olusegun Obasanjo (61) won the nomination for president by the People's Democratic Party.
1995 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1991 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends
1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
1982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die
1979 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins
1979 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 England all out 64 for 1st loss to New Zealand in cricket (Boycott captain)
1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida
1978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
1972 President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
1970 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 Nationalists disrupt United Nations session on Congo
1968 Henry Lewis becomes the first African American to lead a symphony orchestra in the United States. 1961 Entire U.S. figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
1956 Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
1956 Pirates and Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
1946 Bank of England nationalized
1965 singer and pianist Nat King Cole died in Santa Monica, California.
1944 891 British bombers attack Berlin
1942 Singapore surrenders to Japanese
1933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1933 Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin
1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)
1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die
1898 Nigeria, under British control, began to develop a railway system
1879 President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
1852 Great Ormond St. Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
1851 black abolitionists invaded a Boston courtroom and rescued a fugitive slave.
1851 German traveler Heinrich Barth discovered the Royal Chronicle or Girgam, which described the history Kanem-Bornu Empire. It existed in Chad and Nigeria from the 9th century AD onward and lasted as the independent kingdom of Bornu until 1900
1848 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
1823 British Major Dixon Denham and Captain Hugh Clapperton ( entered Northern Nigeria from the north, crossing the desert from Tripoli.
1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
1775 Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI
1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
1764 St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
1689 German Parliament declares war on France
1637 Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
1145 Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
399 Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death on charges of corrupting the youth and introducing news gods to Greek.
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