TODAY IN HISTORY

• Fashion Revolution Day

• World Day for Lab Animals

• 2019 - Nigeria

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria members broke into the national assembly

complex forcing lawmakers to adjourn plenary. The Shiites overpowered security operatives and broke down the first gate to gain access to the complex to mark the 68th birthday and protest against 1,224 days in detention of their leader, Ibraheem El- Zakyzaky.

• 2018 - Nigeria

Senator Dino Melaye jumped out of a moving vehicle while in custody of the police who were taking him to Kogi State for arraignment in a Federal High Court. Hoodlums in two Hilux vans blocked the police van in Abuja. The police say the hoodlums moved Dino to an unknown destination.

• 2016 - Nigeria

Nimbo, border town in Enugu was invaded and scores massacred by Fulani herdsmen. The invasion followed the massacre of hundreds in another farming community, Agatu, Benue State last month

• 2013 - Bangladesh

A building collapsed near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.

• 2011 - USA

Wikileaks started publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.

• 2005 - Italy Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was

inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI. He said as pontiff he would listen to the will of God to lead the 1.1 billion Catholics

• 1993 - S/ Africa

Former African National Congress president, Oliver Tambo ( 75) died.

• 1990 - Scotland

Gruinard Island, Scotland, was officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.

• 1981 - USA

The IBM personal computer was introduced. It used software from a corporation called Microsoft.

• 1970 - Gambia

The Gambia became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.

• 1967 - USSA

Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut, died in Soyuz 1 when the parachute failed to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.