TODAY IN HISTORY

• 2018 - Liberia

Former football star George Weah was sworn in as Liberia’s president.

• 2017 - Gambia

A plane belonging to national leader of All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, was used to fly exGambian Pres., Mr. Yahaya Jammeh, out of the country into exile to restore democracy in The Gambia. West African troops approached the capital, Banjul, to secure the country and allow new President Adama Barrow take office.

• 2017 - E’guinea

Equatorial Guinea's opposition denounced government's decision to welcome exiled Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, who flew to the Central African nation after 22 years in power

• 2017 - USA

Offering ‘ Alternative Facts’ the White House lied about inauguration crowd size from Trump’s inauguration to that of Pres. Obama’s 2009 inauguration, which drew a record 1.8 million. New Press Secretary Sean Spicer falsely claimed more people attended than any other inauguration in U. S. history.

• 2014 - Nigeria

In Bauchi, thousands of protesters threw stones into the Shariah court, urging the speedy convictions and executions of 11 men arrested for belonging to gay organizations.

• 2011 - Gabon

Ivory Coast's incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo ordered the military to stop and search UN vehicles, in latest escalation of hostilities between the man who refused to leave office and the global body that declared his rival winner.

• 2010 - Nigeria

In Jos charred bodies with scorched hands reaching skyward laid in the streets and a mosque with blackened minarets smoldered after several days of fighting between Christians and Muslims killed more than 200 people.

• 2005 - USA

Donald Trump ( 58) married Slovenian model, Melania Knauss ( 34) with all the glamour, glitz and gold that money can buy.

• 1996 - USA

O. J. Simpson testified for the first time since the killings of his ex- wife Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

• 1991 - Sudan

Sudan imposed Islamic law nationwide worsening the civil war between Muslim north and Christian south

• 1973 - Nigeria

A chartered Boeing 707 exploded in flames after landing at Kano Airport, killing 176 passengers.