Carlos Santana at the 2002 Grammy Award |
2014 Nigeria’s military said it has sealed its northern border with Cameroon in an effort to shut out Islamist militants using its neighbor as a launch pad for attacks.
2013 In in northeastern Nigeria at least six people were killed in an attack in Ngalba, Yobe state. Local residents suspected the radical Islamic sect known as Boko Haram. \
2013 In Nigeria concrete and other structures in "a densely populated area" of Lagos were razed to the ground. On Aug 12 Amnesty International published satellite images and said 9,000 people have lost homes and livelihoods and thousands more were threatened in the slum destroyed by armed police and bulldozers.
2012 The State Senate of Maryland approves a bill allowing same-sex marriage in the state
2012 In Nigeria gunmen on four motorcycles shot dead 4 policemen on foot patrol in Kano. 15 suspects were arrested.
2011 More than 1,000 people are estimated to have been killed during the unrest in Libya
2011 In Nigeria two men on a motorbike killed a senior police officer inspector after following him to his home in Maiduguri, Borno state.
2007 In Nigeria gunmen shot dead a Lebanese engineer and kidnapped two Italians in two separate incidents in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt.
2006 Christians in the southern Nigerian city of Onitsha burned Muslim corpses and defaced wrecked mosques, showing little repentance after days of sectarian violence that has killed more than 120 people across the country.
2005 In northern Nigeria hunters burning land to flush out game set fire to a munitions dump, triggering a string of explosions which damaged military buildings and spread panic in the city of Kaduna.
2004 The World Health Organization launched a massive immunization campaign targeting 63 million children in 10 African countries as a polio outbreak spread from heavily Muslim northern Nigeria.
Norah Jones at 203 Grammy Award |
2003 45th Grammy Awards, Norah Jones and John Mayer win major awards
2002 Switzerland largest bank said it was freezing accounts containing money of the family of Sani Abacha of Nigeria, dictator from 1993-1998. The total blocked now reached $720 million.
2002 42nd Grammy Awards, Santana, Sarah McLachlan and Sting win major awards
2000 In Nigeria residents fled Kaduna after 2 days of religious clashes left at least 200 people dead.
1998 Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31
1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
1991 Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
1985 U.S. Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general
1983 25th Grammy Awards: Roxanna, Toto IV, Men at Work wins
1981 Spanish coup under Lt-colonel Antonio Tejero Molina fails
1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill
1979 Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps
Sociologist and historian William Edward Burghardt
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1967 U.S. troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1966 Aldo Moro forms Italian government
1966 Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
1966 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
1954 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh) 1944 Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a chemist who invented Bakelite, the first plastic that did not soften when heated. Those black plastic knobs on stoves were made of bakelite. 1934 Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium 1921 1st U.S. transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York City from San Francis 1917 February revolution begins in Russia
1905 Rotary Club International formed by 4 men in Chicago 1884 Casimir Funk was born. Funk was a Polish-American biochemist who came up with the word‘vitamine’ later changed to ‘vitamin.’ 1868 Sociologist and historian William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.Du Bois would go on to be credited as “the most important Black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century” by other historians for his extensive sociological studies into the African-American experience in America, and his pioneering of Pan-Africanism, the belief that people of African descent should join together to fight for their freedom 1660 Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
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