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2011: Bomb Blasts Mar Start of Presidential Elections
A second explosion has rocked Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday as voting gets underway in presidential polls.
Late Friday a bomb exploded near a vote collating centre in the same city, but there were no reports of any casualties. Maiduguri was hit by two explosions during parliamentary elections a week ago.
2007: Supreme Court rules that INEC Has No Power to Disqualify Any Candidate
In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has no power to disqualify any candidate submitted to it by a political party, thereby setting aside an earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal on the matter.
1912: Harriet Quimby’s flight across the English Channel
On this day in 1912, American aviator Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel, guiding her French Blériot monoplane through heavy overcast from Dover, England, to Hardelot, France.
2014: The South Korean ferry Sewol Capsized killing 300 high schoolers
The South Korean ferry Sewol, traveling from Inch’ŏn to Cheju, capsized and sank, killing 304 people, most of whom were high schoolers.
2007: US deadliest mass shooting in Campus of Virginia Tech
In one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States, 33 people, including the shooter, were killed on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus of Virginia Tech.
2003: Michael Jordan played his last game in NBA
At age 40, Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the best player in the history of basketball, played his last game in the National Basketball Association.
1962: Walter Cronkite became the anchor of the CBS Evening News
American journalist Walter Cronkite became anchor of the CBS Evening News, a position he held for nearly two decades, during which time he became known as “the most trusted man in America.”
1948: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development was formed After World War II,
In order to restore the economy of Europe after World War II, 16 European countries formed the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (later the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development).
1947: American basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was born
1943: Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic properties of LSD,
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic properties of LSD, a drug he had first synthesized in 1938.
1917: Vladimir Lenin returned to Russia from exile
Vladimir Lenin ended his 17-year exile and returned to Russia to form a provisional government.
1746: An English army defeated a Scottish force under Charles Edward Stuart
An English army defeated a Scottish force under Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) at the Battle of Culloden, ending the Jacobite effort to restore the Stuarts to England’s throne.
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