TODAY IN HISTORY
• World Voice Day
• 2015 - Nigeria
Pres.-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, bestselling author, Chimamanda Adichie and Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, were the Nigerians who made the TIME 100 list of world most influential persons.
• 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 countries.
• 2012 - USA
Jim Yong Kim, a KoreanAmerican physician and head of Dartmouth College, was appointed to head the World Bank. Challenger and Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-iweala congratulated Kim, but called for changes to the Us-dominated selection process.
• 2011 - Ivory Coast
Officials began drawing up list of ministers, generals and journalists to be charged with blood crimes, corruption and hate speech, as shooting erupted between forces of pro-gbagbo militia and forces of democratically elected Pres. Ouattara.
• 2007 - Nigeria
Supreme Court ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) unlawfully disqualified vice president, Atiku Abubakar, a top opposition politician who once allied with the president from running to replace his former mentor.
• 2005 - Italy
Cardinals meeting at the Vatican destroyed the 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 76ers, 107-87.
• 1994 - Rwanda
4,500 Tutsi, including women and children, were slaughtered in the Kibuye Stadium. About 12,000 Tutsi were murdered at Kibuye’s church, in the stadium, and in 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.