TODAY IN HISTORY
• 2020 - Nigeria
Pres. Muhammadu Buhari in a national broadcast ordered lockdown and ban on social/ economic activities and movement in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja for 14 days to curb the spread of coronavirus. Nigeria had 111 confirmed cases. The country also shut international airports and closed all land borders.
• 2020 - Italy
Death toll from outbreak of coronavirus climbed by 756 to 10,779. Italy's government said it will extend beyond April 3 the lokdown.
• 2018 - Nigeria
Family of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. disowned a recent award given to Pres. Buhari in Abuja.
• 2017 - UK
Prime Minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union, formally beginning United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.
• 2017 - Nigeria
Former Senate majority leader, Ali Ndume, was suspended for six months.
• 2016 - Nigeria
Buhari attributed triumph of the All Progressives Congress in 2015 to the vision of Bola Tinubu in a recorded tribute at the 8th Bola Tinubu Colloquium in Abuja to commemorate Tinubu’s 64th birthday.
• 2014 - UK
The first same- sex marriages in England and Wales held.
• 2006 - Nigeria
Ex- Liberian President Charles Taylor, accused of war crimes, was flown to Sierra Leone after he was captured in Nigeria’s border with Cameroon.
• 2005 - USA
Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. died aged 67. He became a legal superstar after helping clear O. J. Simpson 1995 murder trial
• 2004 - Ireland
Ireland outlawed smoking in workplaces, imposing the strictest anti- tobacco measure ever adopted by any country on earth.
• 1886 - USA
Coca- Cola was advertised for the first time in the Atlanta Daily. Its inventor, Dr. John Pemberton, claimed it could cure anything from hysteria to cold. The pharmacist concocted a bath of dark, sugary syrup to be mixed with carbonated water. This was the beginning of Coca Cola, which then contained enough cocaine to give the drinker a buzz and more caffeine than the drink contains today. The drink was named by Frank Robinson and he created its signature script logo. Pemberton brewed the first batch of Coca- Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.