TODAY IN HISTORY

• World Parkinson's Day • 2019 - Sudan

President of Sudan, Omar al- Bashir, was removed from power by the military, after a series of protests against his rule.

• 2019 - Ecuador

Ecuador removed the asylum it gave to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at its embassy in London, leading to his arrest after seven years spent there.

• 2019 - India

India's general election began; lasting six weeks, it is the world's biggest democratic process.

• 2016 - Nigeria

Secretary to Kaduna State government, Balarabe Lawal, told a commission of inquiry that soldiers and state officials took 347 bodies from a mortuary and an army base to a bush for mass burial after Dec. 12- 14 military raids on Shiite compounds in Zaria The Shiites said those killed were close to 1,000.

• 2015 - Nigeria

Prof. Tekena Tamuno, foremost historian and former Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan died.

• 2014 - Tunisia

Switzerland said it will hand over to Tunisia $ 40 million stashed in Swiss banks by family of ousted dictator El Abidine Ben Ali. Investigations into the origin of $ 28.5 million remaining continued.

• 2011 - Libya

A delegation of African heads of state met rebel leaders in their stronghold of Benghazi to try to sell a peace plan already accepted by Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

• 2011 - Ivory Coast

The political crisis in the aftermath of the election held in December came to an end after incumbent Laurent Gbagbo was arrested from his underground bunker in Abidjan by forces backing rival presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara, who became the next President.

• 2009 - Egypt

Coptic Orthodox Church for the first time issued a certificate of conversion to a Muslim- born Christian. It was the second time such a request has been formally made in a country where converting to Christianity, while not illegal, is practically impossible

• 2006 - Israel

Israel's Cabinet declared Prime Minister Ariel Sharon permanently incapacitated, officially ending his five- year tenure.

• 1979 - Uganda

Idi Amin was deposed as president as rebels seized control of Kampala. Amin escaped to Libya and settled into exile in Saudi Arabia.