TODAY IN HISTORY

• World Tailors Day

• 2017 - Nigeria

National leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, vowed never to contest the presidency against Pres Muhammadu Buhari • Former Director General of the defunct National Sports Commission, Amos Adamu suffered another setback. He was banned 2 years by FIFA’S Independent Ethics Committee.

• A Pan Igbo group, Nzuko Umunna, led by former Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Prof. Charles Soludo, told Pres. Buhari to release detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, saying the federal government must obey court orders even when it appeared unpalatable

• 2016 - Nigeria

Armed bandits abducted students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary in Ikorodu area of Lagos. • The road to freedom for abducted Ese Rita Oruru began after Emir of Kano, Malam Sanusi, ordered that the 14-year-old who was kidnapped to Kano from Bayelsa as a childbride 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.

•2011 - Guinea

Global Witness, a corruption watchdog, said Teodorin Obiang, son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator of 30 years, plans to build a $380m super-yacht

• 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.

• 1759 - Italy

Pope Clement XIII allowed the Bible to be translated into various languages.