TODAY IN HISTORY

• Intl Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade

• International Day of the Unborn Child

• 2019 - S/ Africa

Mobs armed with rods and machetes broke into homes of foreigners in Durban, chasing them out and looting their belongings.

• 2018 - Nigeria

Anto and Khloe returned to the Big Brother Naija house. The duo were re- admitted after emerging with the highest number of votes from fans, making them the first to return the reality show after eviction.

• 2015 - Nigeria

Nigeria shut its land and sea borders ahead of the general election on March 28. A court in Abuja adjourned a disqualification suit against All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari till April 22, clearing him to contest in the polls.

• 2013 - Libya

Libya's foreign minister said widow of the late ruler Moammar Gadhafi and family members have been granted asylum in Oman.

• 2013 - USA

Yahoo acquired Summly, a British startup, for $ 30 million. Summly founder Nick d’aloisio, aged 17, had created an iphone app to summarize articles in 300- 400 characters.

• 2005 - Italy

Ailing, silent Pope John Paul appeared to Catholic faithful via video for Good Friday services at the Vatican.

• 1995 - USA

Mike Tyson was released from the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for the 1992 rape of Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant

• 1965 - USA

Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. Civil Rights pressures increased in the US and blacks and whites marched to complete a four- day 50- mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.

• 1957 - Europe

The European Economic Community was established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members The Treaty was signed in Rome to enable people, goods, services and money move unchecked throughout the Union.

• 1807 - UK

The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing slave trade in the British Empire. It was piloted by William Wilberforce, evangelical member of parliament.