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2003: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, won a second term election against some twenty (20) other candidates.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a former military ruler turned civilian statesman. He sought a second term against some twenty (20) other candidates. Obasanjo won 62% of 42 million votes. Opponents denounced the elections as fraudulent and claimed serious rigging in 16 of 36 states.
2006: Militants killed two people in a car bomb attack on an army barracks in the city of Port Harcourt.
A car bomb detonated inside a military barracks in the Nigerian oil centre of Port Harcourt, killed two people and injured several others, military authorities disclosed.
The militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed responsibility for the car bomb, marking a new dimension in an already violent campaign that has slashed Nigerian oil exports and pushed up global prices.
1775: American Revolution began
Battle of Lexington
Launched this day in 1775 with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the American Revolution was an effort by 13 British colonies in North America (with help from France, Spain, and the Netherlands) to win their independence.
2018: King Mswati III changed his country’s name from the Kingdom of Swaziland to the Kingdom of Eswatini.
King Mswati III announced that he was changing his country’s name from the Kingdom of Swaziland to the Kingdom of Eswatini.
2005: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope John Paul II
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to succeed Pope John Paul II, who had died some two weeks earlier; Ratzinger took the name Benedict XVI.
1975: India launched its first Earth satellite from the Soviet Union
Aryabhata, the first uncrewed Earth satellite built by India, was launched from the Soviet Union by a Russian-made rocket.
1960: Students in South Korea began demonstrating against President Syngman Rhee
Students in South Korea began demonstrating against President Syngman Rhee, who had declared victory in the national election, which many claimed was marred by fraud; the unrest grew, ultimately forcing Rhee to resign.
1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an act of resistance by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation, began this day and was quelled four weeks later, on May 16.
1772: English economist David Ricardo, was born
English economist David Ricardo, who gave systematized and classical form to the rising social science of economics in the 19th century, is believed to have been born on or about this day.
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