TODAY IN HISTORY

• Cities for Life Day

A festivity supporting the abolition of death penalty.

• 2019 - Nigeria

Smart Adeyemi, candidate of All Progressives Congress sent Senator Dino Melaye out of the Senate by winning Kogi west rerun poll.

• 2018 - USA

George H. W. Bush ( 94), 41st president of the United States, died in Houston.

• 2016 - Nigeria

Outcry by Nigerians compelled Nigerian Communications Commission to suspend the planned increase in telecom data tariff. Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, absolved the Federal Government of complicity in the bid to hike the price consumers pay on data services.

• 2015 - Nigeria

Cameroonian troops crossed into Nigeria and killed about 150 people near the Banki border post according to refugees who walked days to Adamawa’s Fufore transit center.

• 2013 - USA

Actor Paul Walker ( 40), a star in the Fast and Furious film series, died in a crash in Los Angeles. Roger Rodas, his financial advisor, drove the Porsche and was also killed. His daughter, aged 15 became the sole beneficiery of his estimated $ 25m estate.

• 2008 - Thailand

Attackers set off explosions at anti- government protesters in Thailand's worst political crisis in decades, which strangled its economy and shut down its main airports.

• 2005 - England

John Sentamu became the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.

• 1995 - Iraq

Official end of Operation Desert Storm. The Gulf War was waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait arising from oil pricing and production

• 1966 - Barbados

Barbados became independent from the UK.