TODAY IN HISTORY
• 2018 - Nigeria
Pres. Muhammadu Buhari said he has resolved to stop complaining about the problems his administration inherited when it came into office, saying he “asked for it” by relentlessly vying for office four times before emerging president in 2015.
• 2017 - Nigeria
Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, swore in 28 commissioners and 27 Transition Committee chairmen. He also made his sister commissioner of a newly created Ministry of Happiness.
• 2016 - Nigeria
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, expressed disappointment in a statement credited to the Olugbo of Ugbo in Ondo State, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, describing the Yoruba heroine, Moremi, as a traitor.
• 2015 - Nigeria
South Africa-based MTN announced that its fine by Nigeria's communications agency had been reduced to N674 billion ($3.4 billion). Spokesman Tony Ojobo said there was a typo and the actual amount is N780 billion ($3.9 billion).
• 2015 - Chile
Chilean Pres. Michelle Bachelet signed a decree that removed marijuana from the country's list of hard drugs.
• 2005 - Hong Kong
Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protested for democracy and called on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
• 2004 - Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's ruling party elected longtime cabinet minister Joyce Mujuru as the country's first woman vice-president at the end of a party congress, putting her on course to succeed Mugabe when he eventually retires in 2008.
• 2003 - Liberia
Interpol put ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor on its most-wanted list, issuing a "red notice" calling for his arrest on war crimes charges in Sierra Leone's civil war.
• 2001 - S/africa
In South Africa Marike de Klerk (64), ex-wife of former Pres. F.W. de Klerk, was found stabbed and strangled in her luxury apartment in Cape Town.
• 1997 - Liberia
Samuel Dokie an opposition politician, was found slain in Bong County with his wife and bodyguard. He had been reported missing after being arrested by security men in Pres. Taylor’s stronghold of Gbarnga.