TODAY IN HISTORY

• International Day For Monuments and Sites

• 2017 - Nigeria

53-year-old Nigerian, Abdullahi Shuaibu, was arrested by the New York Police for robbing four Manhattan banks.

• Senate asked Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to unveil owners of the $43 million found in a luxury apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos. EFCC searched the apartments of former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi; and a former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, as part of investigations into the $43m.

• 2016 - Nigeria

Danladi Umar, chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal gave senators harsh words when he barred them from Saraki’s trial. He declared that the Senate was not on trial but its president, so the lawmakers had no reason being in court daily.

• 2014 - Nepal

16 people died in an avalanche on Mount Everest.

• 2013 - Nigeria

Fighting erupted between security forces and Boko Haram fighters in the fishing town of Baga, Borno State, which left a whole community razed down and the Multinational Joint Taskforce invaded.

• 2012 - Spain

King Juan Carlos apologized for going elephanthunting in Africa while everyday people endured a severe economic crisis.

• 1998 - Cambodia

The Khmer Rouge killed 22 ethnic Vietnamese at Chanok Tru, a fishing village on Tonle Sap Lake.

The remains of Pol Pot (72) were cremated, three days after the Khmer Rouge leader blamed, for the killings of up to two million Cambodians died.

• 1980 - Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) got independence from Britain. Its chiefs were stripped of power. Canaan Banana, a Methodist theologian, became president until 1987. Robert Mugabe became prime minister and held the real authority.

• 1955 - USA

Albert Einstein (76), physicist, who introduced the Theory of Relativity, died. Dr. Thomas Harvey, chief pathologist at Princeton Hospital, performed Einstein’s autopsy. He removed the brain and took it home. In 1999 it was reported that his inferior parietal lobe was larger than normal.

• 1948 - Holland

International Court of Justice opened at Hague, Netherlands.