• 2021 - Nigeria

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State was placed on watchlist by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) ahead of the expiration of his tenure. In a letter to the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service ( NIS), EFCC said it placed Obiano on watchlist to prevent him from travelling out of Nigeria.

• 2016 - Columbia

The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia— People's Army signed a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50- year- long civil war.

• 2014 - Nigeria

Insurgents attacked Damassak town. Some 16,000 people fled Damassak in Niger, to a makeshift emergency camp at Gagamari village.

• 2013 - Sudan

Attackers killed a Rwandan peacekeeper in an ambush on a UN convoy in conflict- stricken Darfur.

• 2002 - Nigeria

The Miss World contest was forced to relocate to London from Abuja after riots by Muslim youths opposed to the show left more than 200 people dead and 500 injured in the city of Kaduna after three days of MuslimChristian bloodletting.

The violence was triggered by a newspaper's suggestion that Prophet Muhammad would have liked the event.

• 1993 - Nigeria

New Federal Executive Council and Provisional Ruling Council convened by late Gen. Sani Abacha. Sanctions imposed by UK and European Union after the annulment of presidential elections won by Chief MKO Abiola.

• 1982 - Kenya

Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan economist and father of United States president, Barack Obama died. He was born in 1936.

• 1976 - Turkey

The Çaldıran- Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.

• 1971 - USA

During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines with $ 200,000 in ransom money.

• 1965 - Congo

Joseph- Désiré Mobutu seized power in the Democratic Republic of Congo and became President; he ruled the country ( which he renamed Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until he was overthrown in 1997.