TODAY IN HISTORY

• 2023 - Nigeria

CBN directed banks to pay customers with only N100, N50, N20, N10 and N5 notes over the counter no matter how much is withdrawn amid biting cash scarcity.

• 2021 - Nigeria

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, asked a U. S court to issue a gag order on his ex- girlfriend, Autumn Spikes, who took to social media to expose their affair. She shared a video of herself and Dangote on a couch amid exposed buttocks tagging @ Iambealewis another lady who had earlier exposed her relationship with Dangote.

• 2020 - Worldwide

The World Health Organization declared the COVID19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

• 2019 - Nigeria

The Cola- Cola Company fully bought Chi Limited. In a statement, Coca- Cola said it has extended its minority investment in the company to full ownership

• 2017 - Nigeria

The Naira currency fell to N500/$ at the black market the anticipated support of the resurging foreign exchange ( forex) reserves’ volume, at $ 27.9 billion.

• 2000 - Kenya

Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.

• 1995 - USA

Hydroxycarbamide became the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease.

• 1972 - Pakistan

Pakistan left the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh..

• 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.

• 1969 - UK

The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police

• 1956 - USA

In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.' s home was bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott.

• 1948 - India

Following assassination of Mahatma Gandhi at home, India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, broadcast to the nation, saying "The light has gone out of our lives". The date of assassination is now observed as "Martyrs' Day" in