TODAY IN HISTORY

• World AIDS Vaccine Day • World Museum Day

• 2019 - USA

Joe Biden announced his presidential campaign.

• 2018 - USA

A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas killed ten people.

• 2016 - Egypt

An Egyptair plane headed to Cairo from Paris with 69 people on board disappeared from radar. The Airbus A320 Flight MS804 took off from Charles de Gaulle airport at 11: 09p. m. but lost communications with radar at 2: 45a. m.

• 2013 - France

Pres. Francois Hollande signed a law authorising gay marriage and adoption by same- sex couples.

• 2011 - USA

IMF chief Dominique Strauss- Kahn resigned amidst sexual assault charges in New York.

• 2010 - Nigeria

National Assembly approved Namadi Sambo, governor of Kaduna State as vice president to Pres. Goodluck Jonathan.

• 2009 - Sri Lanka

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam known as Tamil Tigers, fighting to create an independent state, were defeated by Sri Lankan government, ending 26 years of fighting. Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, said 23,000 troops had died since October, 1981, when the insurgency began.

• 2009 - India

Krishna Pattabhi Jois ( b. 1915), a yoga teacher famous for popularizing Ashtanga yoga, died. He said the path of internal purification for revealing the Universal Self consists of this eight spiritual practices: Yama ( moral codes), Niyama ( study), Asana ( posture), Pranayama ( breath control), Pratyahara ( sense control), Dharana ( concentration), Dhyana ( meditation), Samadhi ( contemplation).

• 2004 - Nigeria

Pres. Olusegun Obasanjo declared a state of emergency in Plateau State in a bid to halt religious and ethnic violence. He sacked Governor Joshua Dariye and dissolved legislature.

• 1920 - Italy

Pope John Paul II ( d. 2005) was born as Karol Wojtyla, in Poland. In 1978 he became the 264th pope. He wrote the bestseller "Crossing the Threshold."

• 1987 - USA

In a medical first, doctors transplanted heart and lungs of an auto accident victim to Clinton House, who gave up his own heart to a second recipient. House, U. S.’ s first living heart donor, died 14 months later