TODAY IN HISTORY

• Intl. Jazz Day ( UNESCO)

• 2021 - Israel

45 men and boys were killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.

• 2021 - Nigeria

Senior Special Assistant to Pres. Muhammadu Buhari on Media, Garba Shehu, alleged that popular Christian clergy, Fr. Ejike Mbaka, asked Buhari for contracts but was snubbed. Shehu reacting to call by Spiritual leader of Adoration Ministry to Buhari to resign or be impeached, said Mbaka once brought 3 contractors to the president but Buhari insisted that due process must be followed.

• 2019 - UK

PM Theresa May fired defense minister Gavin Williamson over evidence he was behind media reports that government had agreed against advice of the United States to let Huawei participate in some aspects of Britain's new 5G wireless communications network.

• 2018 - USA

United States Pres., Donald J. Trump, at a White House briefing with Pres. Muhammadu Buhari during his visit said killing of Christians and burning of churches in Nigeria has become a serious problem and the U. S. would not accept it.

• 2016 - Kenya

Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta set fire to the world's biggest ivory bonfire, demanding total ban on trade in tusks and horns to end trafficking and prevent extinction of elephants in the wild.

• 2015 - Nigeria

Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala said she is a cancer survivor at the service of songs for late Presidential aide, Oronto Douglas in Abuja

• 2013 - Holland

Willem- Alexander was inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following abdication of Beatrix, who ended her 33- year reign.

• 2009 - Holland

Seven people and the perpetrator were killed at a Queen's Day parade in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.

• 1980 - Holland

Beatrix was inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.

• 1945 - Germany

Adolf Hitler ( 56) committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun ( 33), as Russian troops arrived Berlin. Karl Donitz became his successor. Their bodies were cremated and hastily buried in a hole in Reich Chancellery garden hours before Berlin's fall. In 1970 Russia’s KGB ordered Hitler’s body to be dug up, turned to powder and thrown into a river.