1948 Martin Luther King,Jr. Ordained
Martin Luther King ordained as a Baptist minister
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2014 In northeastern Nigeria gunmen from the Islamist group Boko Haram stormed a boarding school early today, killing 59 people, many of whom died in flames as the school was burned to the ground in Buni Yadi, Yobe state.
2013 Russia enacts a law that bans smoking in schools and on subways
2013 Scientists in Spain publish a study in the 'New England Journal of Medicine' that claims a Mediterranean diets, high in olive oil, nuts, fish and fresh fruits, reduce the risk of heart disease
2012 In Nigeria suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed two police officers in separate attacks in Kaduna and Maiduguri.
2011 Researchers in Fairbanks, Alaska, discover remains of a 3-year old child from the Ice Age and named it Xaasaa Cheege Ts'eniin, 'Upper Sun River Mouth Child'
2010 After being delayed by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych is sworn in as the 4th President of Ukraine
2009 Nigerian teachers in the country's southwest launched an indefinite strike to press demands for better pay.
1989 Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston |
2006 In Zimbabwe Arthur Mutambara, a former NASA researcher, was elected as president of a faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). He vowed to unite his divided party against the regime of Robert Mugabe which he accused of creating chaos in the country.
(AFP, 2/26/06)
2006 Uganda’s election commission declared that President Yoweri Museveni (62) overwhelmingly won re-election in the first multiparty elections in 25 years. The national electoral commission counted ballots at each polling station and immediately announced the results. Adding up those results, the opposition and local media also produced a total count starkly different from the official total. They suggested that fraud was occurring at a national center where the total vote was tallied. Museveni and his National Resistance Movement dominated state-run radio and television and used state resources to campaign
2006 In northern Nigeria 35 were killed and five were injured when two buses collided head-on and caught fire at Kwarna-Jagga in Jigawa state.
2005 Radio Canada International celebrates its 60th anniversary
2003 In Kenya Pres. Mwai Kibaki ordered the release of 28 death row inmates and commuted the death sentences of another 195 inmates to life in prison, following his campaign pledge to reform Kenya's prison system.
2001 In Northumberland, England, over 800 pigs were destroyed and burned due to foot-and-mouth disease. New cases appeared at a cattle and sheep ranch in the southwest.
2000 It was reported that the number of HIV infected people in the Caribbean region ranged from 500,000-700,000. Cases in Haiti were estimated to be 330,000 and 150,000 in the Dominican Republic
1998 40th Grammy Awards, Shawn Colvin, Bob Dylan, Sarah McLachlan, and Elton John win major awards
1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
1992 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins
1991 First African American woman to die in combat in the Persian Gulf War
Adrienne Mitchell, first African American woman to die in combat in the Persian Gulf War is killed in her military barracks in Dharan, Saudi Arabia
1989 Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston for world heavyweight boxing championship in 1964. Boxer Mike Tyson becomes the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World by defeating challenger Frank Bruno of England
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1964 Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston
Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston for world heavyweight boxing championship
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1986 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
1981 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins
1981 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston
Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston for world heavyweight boxing championship.
1952 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway
1950 RIP George Richard Minot, American physician, Minot was one of the developers of the ” raw-liver diet ” used to treat pernicious anemia.
1934 RIP Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton, an American botanist, she helped establish the New York Botanical Gardens.
1922 Donald McLean was born. McLean was a Scottish potato expert who supposedly discovered the world’s largest private collection of potatoes, with 367 varieties.
1918 Wartime food rationing began in parts of England
1904 Adelle Davis was born. Nutritionist, and author of ‘Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit.’ She promoted many theories that have been labeled as unfounded and dangerous by the medical community.
1862 Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln
1847 State University of Iowa is approved
1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
1497 Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France
1948 Martin Luther King,Jr. Ordained
Martin Luther King ordained as a Baptist minister
1418 At the Constance church synod the Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Lithuania, Gregory Camblak, proposed a union between the Orthodox and Catholic church.
1303 Edward II was crowned King of England.
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