TODAY IN HISTORY

• World Voice Day

• 2019 - India

India's Supreme Court considered petition from a Muslim couple to allow women into mosques, seeking to overturn a centuries- old practice that bars women from mosques

• 2018 - Nigeria

Beyoncé made history at California music festival as first black woman to head line Coachella. Attired in Ankara, her groundbreaking performance celebrated black culture, with sound bites of Malcolm X, Chimamanda Adichie speeches and Nina Simone and Fela Kuti songs.

• 2015 - Nigeria

Pres.- elect, Muhammadu Buhari, former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, author, Chimamanda Adichie and Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, were Nigerians who made the TIME 100 list of world most influential persons.

• 2016 - Ecuador

Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years killed 676 and injured 6,274

• 2013 - Nigeria

The Baga massacre started when Boko Haram militants engaged soldiers in Baga, close to Lake Chad in Borno State, where over 2,000 lost their lives.

• 2012 - Denmark

Arnold Maersk Moeller ( 98) the country’s richest man, died. He turned two small shipping companies that his father had created into a global giant with 108,000 workers across 130 nations.

• 2011 - Ivory Coast

Officials began drawing up list of ministers, generals and journalists to be charged with corruption and hate speech, as shooting erupted between proGbagbo militia and forces of elected Pres. Ouattara.

• 2007 - Nigeria

Supreme Court ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission unlawfully disqualified vice president, Atiku Abubakar, from running to replace his former boss

• 2005 - Italy

Cardinals met at the Vatican to destroy late Pope John Paul II'S ring and lead seal to formally end his reign.

• 2003 - USA

Michael Jordan played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia.

• 1994 - Rwanda

4,500 Tutsis were slaughtered in Kibuye Stadium. 12,000 Tutsi were killed at Kibuye’s church and the surrounding countryside.

• 1961 - Cuba

In a national broadcast, Fidel Castro declared that he is a Marxist– Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.