TODAY IN HISTORY

• World Milk Day

• 2021 - Nigeria

Pres. Buhari referred on Twitter to the 1967- 70 Nigerian Civil War and to treating "those misbehaving today in the language they will understand." Twitter soon removed the statement for breaching the site's rules.

• 2021 - Italy

Pope Francis changed church law to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority, and to say that laypeople who hold church office can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes. The new provision released after 14 years of study, were contained in the revised criminal law section of the Vatican’s Code of Canon Law.

• 2020 - USA

George Floyd: In Washington DC, police violently broke up peaceful protest by thousands in Lafayette Park across from the

White House ahead of a Trump speech. Trump's following Bible- toting photo opportunity at St. John's Church, a house of worship known as the Church of the Presidents, was condemned by Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. The death toll from the unrest across the country rose to nine.

• 2019 - UK

Liverpool Football Club won the UEFA Champions League, with a 2- 0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur. The all English team final started with Mohammed Salah scoring the secondfastest goal of Champions League on the spot kick.

• 2016 - Nigeria

As major indicator of wealth distribution across income groups, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation said a mere 2% of Nigerians own 90% of total deposits in Nigerian banks

• The gale of job losses witnessed due to the current economic hardship caught up with Ecobank Nigeria, which sacked over 1,040 of its employees.

• 2015 - China

A ship carrying 458 people capsized on Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.

• 2009 - USA

General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history

• 2001 - Nepal

Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shot and killed several members of his family including his father and mother.

• 1994 - S’africa

Republic of South Africa became a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations.