TODAY IN HISTORY

• International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers

• 2019 - Nigeria

Pres. Muhammadu Buhari was inaugurated for a second term in office. He failed to give an inauguration speech during the swearing- in.

• Ex- Pres. Olusegun Obasanjo escaped a plane crash. He and 393 others were aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane returning to the country.

• 2018 - Nigeria

Cdr. Olufunmilayo Amodu serving with UN Stabilisation Mission in Mali ( MINUSMA), was awarded with medal for her outstanding service. UN Secretary- General Antonio Guterres decorated her with the medal.

• 2015 - Nigeria Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was

sworn in as president with overwhelming wave of hope over his promise of change after a bloodsplitting election campaigns between him and Goodluck Jonathan.

• 2012 - Japan

Tokyo Skytree opened to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world, ( 634 m), and the second tallest man- made structure on earth, after Burj Khalifa ( 829.8 m).

• 2012 - S/ Africa

South African Pres. Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress ( ANC) sought a court order to have a painting depicting the president's genitals removed from an art gallery, but two men took matters into their own hands by defacing the portrait, titled “The Spear," by Brett Murray which was on display in a gallery.

• 2007 - Nigeria

Umaru Yar'adua, governor of Katsina hand- picked by Pres. Obasanjo, was sworn in as president in Nigeria’s first transfer of power from one elected government to another

• 1999 - Nigeria

Pres. Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in as the first civilian president in 16 years, ending a string of military regimes.

• 1992 - UN

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia joined the United Nations. Jammeh ordered homosexuals to leave the country and in a televised speech threatened to cut off the head of anyone discovered to be gay.

• 1953 - Nepal

Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay, of Nepal, became the first climbers to reach the summit. The expedition was led by John Hunt. Norgay authored the autobiography “Man of Everest."