TODAY IN HISTORY

• World Tailors Day

• 2023 - Greece

Two trains collided south of the Vale of Tempe in Greece, leading to the deaths of at least 57 people and leaving 58 missing and 85 injured.

• 2023 - Nigeria

The vice- presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) and the Labour Party ( LP), Ifeanyi Okowa and Datti Baba- Ahmed said there was no transparency in the just concluded presidential elections and called for its cancellation. This is as the three opposition parties, PDP, LP, and the African Democratic Congress demanded that INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, resign over alleged irregularities that marred the presidential and National Assembly elections.

• 2017 - Nigeria

National leader of All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, vowed never to contest the presidency against Pres Muhammadu Buhari

• Ex- Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Prof. Charles Soludo told Pres. Buhari to release detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu

• 2016 - Nigeria

Emir of Kano, Malam Sanusi, ordered that 14year- old Ese Rita Oruru who was kidnapped to Kano from Bayelsa as a child- bride be returned to her parents six months after her forceful abduction.

• 2013 - Italy

Pope Benedict XVI resigned as pope of Catholic Church, becoming the first to do so since 1415.

• 2008 - USA

Joseph M. Juran ( b. 1904), pioneer of quality control, died. Juran’s 80- 20 rule states that 80 per cent of a firm’s problems stem from 20 per cent of causes He called this his Pareto principle, after Vilfredo Pareto ( 1848- 1923), an Italian economist who noted that 20 per cent of the population owned 80 per cent of property in Italy.

• 1996 - UK

Princess Diana agreed to divorce Prince Charles.

• 1954 - USA

The first colour television sets using the NTSC standard were offered for sale to the general public.

• 1935 - USA

Dupont scientist, Wallace Carothers invented nylon.

• 1784 - UK

John Wesley ( 1703- 1791) chartered the Methodist Church. His teaching emphasized field preaching along with piety, probity and respectability.