TODAY IN HISTORY
• Intl Day of the Girl Child • 2017 - Nigeria
The police in Lagos said popular hip-hop artist, David Davido Adeleke, was being interrogated over the death of his friend, Tagbo Umeike, following the discovery that his statements were laced with untruths. He was at the command’s headquarters in the company of his lawyer.
• 2016 - Nigeria
Wife of President Buhari, Aisha, accused some unnamed people of creating divisions among members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in an interview she granted the Hausa Service of the BBC.
• 2014 - Egypt
A court convicted Mohammed el-beltagy, leading Muslim Brotherhood figure, and two others, sentencing them to 15 years in prison on charges of torturing a man during the 2011 protests against then-pres. Hosni Mubarak
• 2014 - Cameroun
27 hostages seized by Boko Haram in May were released by Cameroun authorities, including 10 Chinese and wife of the vice-prime minister.
• 2012 - Nigeria
Farmers asked a Dutch court to rule that oil firm, Shell is liable for poisoning their fish ponds and farmland with leaking pipelines. Shell argued that the case, which was launched in 2008, should be heard in Nigeria.
• 2009 - Italy
Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints: Father Damien, a priest who worked with leprosy patients; Zygmunt Felinski, a Polish bishop; Francisco Guitart; Rafael Baron, who renounced an affluent lifestyle at age 22 to live a humble life in a strict monastery; and Jeanne Jugan, a French nun.
• 2005 - Liberia
Liberia held presidential elections. 22 candidates included soccer star, George Weah, two former warlords and a Harvardeducated woman, Johnson Sirleaf, who emerged winner. Election officials using lanterns counted ballots through the night in the first postwar polls.
• 1992 - USA
Pres. Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton and independent candidate Ross Perot met for the first debate.
• 1910 - USA
Former Pres. Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field, St. Louis.