15th January: Today In History

Today is Sunday, January, the 15th day of 2017. There are 350 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight In History;

Birthdays:

  1906Aristotle Onassis, Wealthy greek shipowner
  1908Edward Teller, American nuclear physicist
  1913Lloyd Bridges, US veteran actor of television and film
  1918Gamal Nasser, Former President of Egypt
  1926Chuck Berry, American rock 'n' roll star
  1929Martin Luther King, US black civil rights campaigner
  1933Frank Bough, Television presenter

Events:

  1559The coronation of Queen Elizabeth I took place
  1759The British Museum in London was opened to the public
  1880The first ever telephone directory in Britain was published
  1913Sickness, unemployment & maternity benefits were introduced
  1927The first ever live rugby match was broadcast over the radio
  1966Junior officers of the Nigerian army, mostly majors overthrew the government in a coup d’etat. The officers, most of whom were Igbo, assassinated Balewa in Lagos, Akintola in Ibadan, and Bello in Kadu
  1966Some Army Officers, mostly Majors, stage a coup and overthrow Tafawa Balewa's government.
  1968The Soviet Union launched the manned Soyuz 5 spacecraft
  1970The civil war ended and reconstruction and rehabilitation begin.
  1970Biafran General Phillip Effiong, Ojukwu's deputy, surrenders to the Nigerian
Government.
  1971The Aswan High Dam, on the Nile in Egypt, was offically opened
  1996Police disrupt NADECO/CD rally at the Shitta Playing Grounds, Lagos. The rally was for remembrance of fallen politicians.
  1996Alhaji lbrahim Abacha (son of the Head of State) and 13 others die in plane crash.The Presidential HS125 jet numbered 5N FGN crashed in Duseiyi village, Dala
Council area, Kano.

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