Nigerian Women Rank Most Promiscuous In Africa

Nigerian Women Rank Most Promiscuous In Africa

A new report emerged online which ranked Nigerian women as the most promiscuous in Africa and also made the world top 15.

On the world ranking, New Zealand claims the number one spot while Switzerland and Spain taking the second and third positions.

Conspicuously missing on the list is the United State of America while Slovenia, Italy, Brazil, and Greece are placed fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh respectively with Mexico, Australia, and Croatia completing the top 10.

The world’s top 15 list below... Please note that the website didn't explain how they came about the ranking....


New Zealand

Switzerland

Spain

Slovenia

Italy

Brazil

Greece

Mexico

Australia

Croatia

The Netherlands

Czech Republic

Germany

France

NIGERIA

Check Out TOP 60 Arrests Made By Dcp Abba Kyari

Check Out TOP 60 Arrests Made By Dcp Abba Kyari

Abba Kyari, a Kanuri by tribe, is a native of Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State.

He was born on March 17th, 1975, into the family of Alhaji Baba Kyari, at the metropolitan city of Maiduguri, Borno State.

He had his primary and secondary education, at the University of Maiduguri Staff Primary School and Government College Maiduguri, where he obtained his Senior Secondary School Leaving Certificate, SSCE. He gained admission into the University of Maiduguri in 1993 and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Geography in 1997. Afterwards, he proceeded on his compulsory National Youth Service, NYSC.

1• Arrest of Nigeria’s most notorious Kidnap kingpin Billionaire Kidnapper Chukwudumeme Onwaumadike Aka Evans in Lagos State and his Gangmembers,

2• Arrest of the killers of former Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) Air Marshal Alex Badeh ‘rtd’ along Keffi-Gitata Kaduna Road,

3• Arrest of the most wanted Boko-Haram Commander Umar Abdulmalik and Eight (8) of his Terrorists gang members,

4• Arrest of Twenty-two (22) Boko-Haram Terrorist gang members responsible for the kidnap of the Chibok School Girls in 2014 and also responsible for series of suicide bombings/several attacks and ambush against Security Agents in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States.

5• Captured the Most Deadly Kidnapper in the History of Nigeria, Henry Chibueze Aka “Vampire” in Owerri, Imo State and his gangmembers,

6• Arrest of the Deadly Offa Bank robbers that invaded Offa Town, Kwara State and robbed five commercial Banks, the gang also murdered over Thirty-one (31) innocent Nigerians Making it the deadliest Bank Robbery in the History Of Nigeria.

7• Arrest of kidnappers who kidnapped a serving Assistant Comptroller of Customs In Portharcourt,

8• Arrest of a syndicate of kidnappers, armed bandits and their sponsors in Zamfara State, after the gang had kidnapped the twin sisters before their wedding,

9• Arrest of deadly armed robbers and murderers who escaped from lawful custody at the SARS Lokoja, Kogi State,

10• Arrest of deadly kidnappers responsible for the kidnap/murder of Mr. John Iheanacho a staff of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/President of Eastern Zone Investment Cooperative Society Ltd, in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State,

11• Arrest of suspect responsible for the murder of Lieutenant Abubakar Yahaya Yusuf a serving Naval Officer and his girlfriend Miss. Lorraine Onye in Rivers State,

12• Arrest of deadly kidnappers responsible for the kidnap of two South African Citizens in Kaduna State,

13• Arrest of the Terrorist responsible for the bombing of Kuje and Nyanya towns of Abuja and recovery of primed bombs in the FCT,

14• Arrest of deadly kidnappers responsible for the kidnap of two Americans and two Canadians in Kaduna State,

15•Arrest Of a Notorious Criminal who threaten to Kill the Former Vice President of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar and his Family.

16• Arrest of the kidnappers of elder statesman Chief Olu Falae in Ondo State,

17• Arrest of gang of deadly killers responsible for the killing of several innocent persons in Benue State and recovery of their operational weapons,

18• Arrest of notorious arms and dealer who specializes in selling arms to armed robbers, kidnappers and Politicians in South-West/recovery of over Fifty arms and thousands of life ammunitions,

19• Arrest of the most notorious armed robber in the South-West, Abiodun Egunjobi Aka “Godogodo” in Ibadan, Oyo State, he was responsible for the death of over Five hundred (500) innocent Nigerians & Police Officers,

20• Arrest of the Kidnappers of the Turkish School Girls in Ogun and Lagos States,

21• Arrest of the kidnappers/murderers of Barrister Sherif Yazid along Abuja-Kaduna Express road,

22• Arrest of most the notorious kidnapping kingpin in Kogi State Halti Bello and twenty of his gang members, the gang had been terrorizing Kogi State and its environ for many years, who also kidnapped and murdered one Istifanus Gurama a senior staff of Dangote group,

23• Arrest of more than Fifteen (15) different gangs of kidnappers totaling over Three hundred (300) kidnappers and recovery of over Two hundred (200) AK47 rifles and other dangerous weapons used in terrorizing Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highways,

24• Arrest of kidnappers/murderers of the Production Manager of Niger Delta Petroleum Resources Limited Mr. Ubani Onyema ‘m’ 64 years old, in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State,

25• Arrest of the most Notorious assassin in the South-west Ade Lawyer and his gang responsible for series of killings in various parts of Lagos State and South-western Nigeria,

26• Arrest of the Kidnappers of Isheri Landlords in Lagos State,

27• Arrest of the Kidnappers of Eighty (80) years old Chief Felix Ogbona in Aba, Abia State,

28• Arrest of assassins and masterminds who gruesomely murdered Mr. Uba Emmanuel aka Onwa in Festac Town, Lagos State,

29• Arrest of kidnappers of Dr. Alex Pepple in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State,

30• Arrest of the Kidnappers of Ikorodu School Girls in Lagos State,

31• Arrest of the Kidnappers of CBN Governor’s wife in Delta State,

32• Arrest of the Kidnappers of Ambassador Bagudu Hirse in Kaduna State,

33• Arrest of the Kidnappers of Serrie Leonian Deputy High Commissioner in Kaduna State,

34• Arrest of the Kidnappers of former Minister of Finance Okonjo Iweala’s Mother in Delta State,

35• Arrest of Niger-Delta militants planning to bomb 3rd Mainland bridge/recovery of arms and explosives in Lagos State,

36• Arrest of Niger Delta militants/notorious Kidnappers and recovery of GPMG, Ak 47 rifles and military grenades in Port-harcourt, Rivers State,

37• Arrest of notorious gang who planned to Kidnap Nigerian billionaire

Femi Otedola in Lagos State,

38• Arrest of the Kidnappers of Oniba of Iba a first class King in Lagos State,

39• Arrest of kidnappers of Hon. Sani Bello member of House of Reps/representing Mashi Federal Constituency of Katsina State (now late),

40• Arrest of the Armed Robbers/Militants who attacked and robbed Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbara Banks in Ogun and Lagos State,

41• Arrest of the Kidnappers of the three (3) Orekoya’s Children in Lagos State,

42• Arrest of the Kidnappers of Former Chairman of Ejigbo LGA in Lagos State,

43• Arrest of Killers of Oyo State member of House of Assembly in Oyo State,

44• Arrest of the kidnappers and Killers of Reverend father Adeyi in Otukpo Benue State,

45• Arrest of Kidnappers of Alhaji Salami in Abuja,

46• Arrest of the kidnappers of two (2) ABTI American University of Nigeria Female Students in Abuja,

47• Arrest of the attackers of Nimbo Community in Enugu State and many more breakthroughs that are too numerous to mention.

48•Rescue Of Magajin Garin Daura from Kidnappers in Kano State and Arrest Of 13 of the Kidnappers/Terrorist  

49•Arrest Of a Notorious Southwest Kidnap Kingpin Abubakar Mohd Aka Buba and his Gangmembers In Oyo State. 

50•Arrest Of the deadliest Kidnapper in the Southwest Abdullahi Abubakar aka Osama and his Group In Ekiti State. 

51•Arrest Of Adamu Umoru aka Dabo and Group, Kingpin Of Abuja-Kaduna expressway Kidnappers Responsible for Kidnapping Dr Mahmoud Chairman UBEC, Killinghid Driver and Many Other Kidnappings and Killings Along the Expressway. 

52•Arrest Of Usman Mohd and Group Of Kidnappers Responsible for kidnapping the Son Of the immediate Past Minister Of Health In Oyo State and Many Other kidnappings in the Southwest. 

53•Arrest Of Tony Raphael aka Chairman and his group, Kidnap Kingpin Terrorizing Rivers State. 

54•Arrest Of Abdullahi Sani and his Group Responsible for the Kidnapping Of the Mother in-law Of Governor Masari Of Katsina State. 

55•Arrest Of Notorious Kidnapper Isa Abdullahi aka Biyi and his Gang Responsible for Several Kidnappings and Killing In Katsina State. 

56•Arrest Of Gbenga Ojomo the Most Notorious Illegal Arms and Ammunition Smuggler in Nigeria, Responsible for Smuggling Thousands Of Rifles and Ammunition from Libya and Burkina Faso to Nigeria. 

57• Arrest Of Sunday Abel aka School boy and his Deadly Gang Of Kidnappers Terrorizing the Southeast Responsible for Kidnapping and Killing a Serving American Soldier In IMO State and Many other Kidnappings and Killings in the Southeast. 

58• Arrest Of Cajetan Otti and Group Of Notorious kidnappers Terrorizing Abia State and Recovery Of Several Rifles. 

59• Arrest Of Divine Nmeni and his gang of Notorious Kidnappers who were Responsible for several Kidnappings and Rapes In Rivers State. 

60• Re-Arrest Of Notorious Taraba State Kidnap Kingpin Hamisu Bala Wadume and Recovery Of Several Rifles after he was Rescued and released from IRT 2 weeks earlier.

23rd January: Today In History

Today is Tuesday, January. 23rd, the 23 day of 2018. There are 342 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

EVENTS: 

1901: A great fire ravages Montreal, resulting in $2.5 million in property lost.
1913: The "Young Turks" revolt because they are angered by the concessions made at the London peace talks.
1932: Franklin D. Rooseveltenters the presidential race.
1948: The Soviets refuse UN entry into North Korea to administer elections.
1949: The Communist Chinese forces begin their advance on Nanking.
1950: Jerusalem becomes the official capital of Israel.
1951: President Truman creates the Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, to monitor the anti-Communist campaign.
1969: NASA unveils moon-landing craft.
1973: President Richard Nixonclaims that Vietnam peace has been reached in Paris and that the POWs would be home in 60 days.
1977: Alex Haley's Roots begins a record-breaking eight-night broadcast on ABC.
1981: Under international pressure, opposition leader Kim Dae Jung's death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment in Seoul.
1986: U.S. begins maneuvers off the Libyan coast.

BIRTHDAY:

1832: Édouard Manet, French impressionist painter best known for Luncheon in the Grass.
1899: Humphrey Bogart, U.S. film actor (The African Queen, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon).
1919: Ernie Kovacs, U.S. comedian and television personality.
1957: Princess Caroline of Monaco.

Nigerian Startup Invents App That Can Diagnose Asphyxia By Analyzing Babies’ Cry

A Nigerian startup has developed a machine learning system to detect child birth asphyxia earlier and hopes to save thousands of babies’ lives every year when its technology is deployed.

The founders say the AI solution has achieved over 95% prediction accuracy in trials with nearly 1,400 pre-recorded baby cries. The startup is now raising funds to acquire more data to improve accuracy and obtain clinical approval from health institutions.

The young startup is already garnering international attention and is in the final round for the global IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition, which has a $5 million prize.

Birth asphyxia is the third highest cause of under-five child deaths and is responsible for almost one million neonatal deaths annually, according to WHO. It has also been linked to 1.1 million intrapartum stillbirths, long-term neurological disability and impairment.

Charles Onu, Ubenwa’s founder and principal innovator, explained that the startup’s machine learning system takes an infant’s cry as input, analyses the amplitude and frequency patterns of the cry and provides instant diagnosis of birth asphyxia.

Although the condition is detectable, Onu said few public hospital in the country had the equipment due to its high cost, poor electricity service and an unrealistic routine application for every child.

Ubenwa’s co-founder and engineering lead, Udeogu Innocent, said after being able to achieve a level of success with the model, the startup then deployed its technology to a mobile app for easier mobile diagnosis of birth asphyxia. It builds on techniques that have been developed for speech recognition.

The Ubenwa team is conducting clinical validation exercises in Nigeria at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital and in Canada at the McGill University Health Centre.

30 Doctors Carry Out 12 Hour Surgery To Separate Conjoined Twin In India (Photo)

Nearly a year after a set of conjoined twins were born to a 26-year old mother at Parel-based Nowrosjee Wadia Maternity Hospital on September 19, 2016, doctors separated them on December 12, with a series of complex surgeries.

In what doctors call an extremely rare birth one in over five lakh – the twins, Love and Prince also had a common liver, urinary bladder, intestines and fused pelvic bones.

“They had to be operated very carefully as we feared that they may suffer heavy bleeding or their blood pressure may dropp,” said Dr Pradnya Bendre, head of paediatric surgery, Wadia Hospital, who led the team of 30 doctors monitoring the children in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

“The surgery lasted for 12 hours. Giving anesthesia to children is always challenging, as one has to be very accurate with the dose,” she added.

Doctors said the children are now in a stable condition. Their mother, Sheetal Zalte, said she learnt about the their condition during the fifth month of her pregnancy, when she was visiting her parents.


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19th October: Today In History

Today is Thursday, Oct. 19th, the 292nd day of 2017. There are 73 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

Events:

1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value (its biggest daily percentage loss), to close at 1,738.74 in what came to be known as “Black Monday.”

202 BC, at the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.

1216, John, King of England, died, just more than a year after affixing his royal seal to Magna Carta (“The Great Charter”).

1469, Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

1781, British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, as the American Revolution neared its end.

1812, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his retreat from Moscow.

1914, the First Battle of Ypres began during World War I.

1936, H.R. Ekins of the New York World-Telegram beat out Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times in a round-the-world race on commercial flights that lasted 18 1/2 days.

1950, the People’s Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu River to fight United Nations forces.

1953, the Ray Bradbury novel “Fahrenheit 451,” set in a dystopian future where books are banned and burned by the government, was first published by Ballantine Books.

1967, the U.S. space probe Mariner 5 flew past Venus.

1977, the supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City. The body of West German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, who had been kidnapped by left-wing extremists, was found in Mulhouse, France.

1982, automaker John Z. DeLorean was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, accused of conspiring to sell $24 million of cocaine to salvage his business. (DeLorean was acquitted at trial on grounds of entrapment.)

1994, 22 people were killed as a terrorist bomb shattered a bus in the heart of Tel Aviv’s shopping district.

2003, Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

Birthday:

Author John le Carre is 86.

Artist Peter Max is 80.

Actor Michael Gambon is 77.

Actor John Lithgow is 72.

Rock singer-musician Patrick Simmons (The Doobie Brothers) is 69.

Singer Jennifer Holliday is 57.

Boxer Evander Holyfield is 55. 

Quotes Of The Day:

“It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.” — Fannie Hurst, American author (both this date in 1885, died 1968).

26th September: Today In History

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 26th, the 269th day of 2017. There are 96 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

Events:

1892:  John Philip Sousa and his newly formed band performed publicly for the first time at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, New Jersey.

1777: British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.

1789:  Thomas Jefferson was confirmed by the Senate to be the first United States secretary of state; John Jay, the first chief justice; Edmund Randolph, the first attorney general.

1835:  The opera “Lucia di Lammermoor” by Gaetano Donizetti was first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Italy.

1907:  New Zealand went from being a colony to a dominion within the British Empire.

1914:  The Federal Trade Commission was established.

1937:  The radio drama “The Shadow,” starring Orson Welles, premiered on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

1957:  The musical play “West Side Story” opened on Broadway.

1960:  The first-ever debate between presidential nominees took place as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon faced off before a national TV audience from Chicago.

1977:  Sir Freddie Laker began his cut-rate “Skytrain” service from London to New York. (However, the carrier went out of business in 1982.)

1986:  William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as its 103rd member.

1991:  Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Arizona, called Biosphere 2. (They emerged from Biosphere on this date in 1993.)

1997:  A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashed while approaching Medan Airport in north Sumatra, killing all 234 people aboard.

Birthdays:

Retired baseball All-Star Bobby Shantz is 92.

Actor Philip Bosco is 87. Actor Richard Herd is 85.

South African nationalist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is 81.

Country singer David Frizzell is 76.

Actor Kent McCord is 75.

Television host Anne Robinson is 73.

Singer Bryan Ferry is 72.

Quotes Of The Day: 

 “Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.” 

24th September: Today In History

Today is Sunday, Sept. 24th, the 267th day of 2017. There are 98 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

Events:

1717:  English author Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, was born in London.

1789:  President George Washington signed a Judiciary Act establishing America’s federal court system and creating the post of attorney general.

1869:  Thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic known as “Black Friday” after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.

1890:  The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Wilford Woodruff, wrote a manifesto renouncing the practice of plural marriage, or polygamy.

1929:  Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight.

1934:  Babe Ruth made his farewell appearance as a player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox. (The Sox won, 5-0.)

1948:  Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist “Axis Sally,” pleaded not guilty in Washington D.C. to charges of treason. (Gillars, later convicted, ended up serving 12 years in prison.)

1955:  President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.

1957:  The Los Angeles-bound Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.

1960:  The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Virginia. “The Howdy Doody Show” ended a nearly 13-year run with its final telecast on NBC.

1976:  Former hostage Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Hearst was released after 22 months after receiving clemency from President Jimmy Carter.)

1988:  Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the men’s 100-meter dash at the Seoul (sohl) Summer Olympics – but he was disqualified three days later for using anabolic steroids. Members of the eastern Massachusetts Episcopal diocese elected Barbara C. Harris the first female bishop in the church’s history.

1996:  The United States and 70 other countries became the first to sign a treaty at the United Nations to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. (The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has yet to enter into force because of the refusal so far of eight nations – including the United States – to ratify it.)

Birthdays:

Rhythm-and-blues singer Sonny Turner (The Platters) is 78.

Singer Barbara Allbut Brown (The Angels) is 77.

Singer Phyllis “Jiggs” Allbut Sirico (The Angels) is 75.

Singer Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers) is 75.

News anchor Lou Dobbs is 72.

Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Joe Greene is 71. 

Quotes Of The Day:

“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”

16th September: Today In History

Today is Saturday, Sept. 16th, the 259th day of 2017. There are 106 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History:

Events:

1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act. Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

1498: Tomas de Torquemada, notorious for his role in the Spanish Inquisition, died in Avila, Spain.

1857:  The song “Jingle Bells” by James Pierpont was copyrighted under its original title, “One Horse Open Sleigh.” (The song, while considered a Christmastime classic, was actually written for Thanksgiving.)

1893:  More than 100,000 settlers swarmed onto a section of land in Oklahoma known as the “Cherokee Strip.”

1908: General Motors was founded in Flint, Michigan, by William C. Durant.

1919:  The American Legion received a national charter from Congress.

1925:  The Irving Berlin song “Always” (written for his future wife, Ellin Mackay) was published.

1953:  “The Robe,” the first movie presented in the widescreen process CinemaScope, had its world premiere at the Roxy Theater in New York.

1967:  The TV series “Mannix,” starring Mike Connors as a private investigator, premiered on CBS.

1977:  Maria Callas, the American-born prima donna famed for her lyric soprano and fiery temperament, died in Paris at age 53.

1982:  The massacre of between 1,200 and 1,400 Palestinian men, women and children at the hands of Israeli-allied Christian Phalange militiamen began in west Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

1987:  Two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth’s ozone layer by calling on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000.

1994:  A federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez (val-DEEZ’) oil spill (the U.S Supreme Court later reduced that amount to $507.5 million). Two astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery went on the first untethered spacewalk in ten years.

Birthdays:

Actress Janis Paige is 95.

Actor George Chakiris is 85.

Bluesman Billy Boy Arnold is 82.

Movie director Jim McBride is 76.

Actress Linda Miller is 75.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Betty Kelley (Martha & the Vandellas) is 73.

Musician Kenney Jones (Small Faces; Faces; The Who) is 69.

Actress Susan Ruttan is 69.

15th September: Today In History

Today is Friday, Sept. 15th, the 258th day of 2017. There are 107 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

Events:

1940:  During the World War II Battle of B:ritain, the tide turned as the Royal Air Force inflicted heavy losses upon the Luftwaf:fe.

1789:   The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.

1807:  Former Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of a misdemeanor charge two weeks after he was found not guilty of treason.

1857:  William Howard Taft — who served as President of the United States and as U.S. chief justice — was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1917:   First issue of Forbes magazine was published.

1935:  The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship.

1942:  During World War II, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; the U.S. Navy ended up sinking the badly damaged vessel.

1950:  During the Korean conflict, United Nations forces landed at InTcheon in the south and began their drive toward Seoul (sohl).

1963:  Four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three:   Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.)

1972:  A federal grand jury in Washington indicted seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in.

1981:  The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to approve the Supreme Court nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor.

1997:  Two of the nation’s most popular diet drugs — dexfenfluramine and fenfluramine — were pulled off the market because of new evidence they could seriously damage patients’ hearts.

2000:  The 2000 Summer Olympics opened in Sydney, Australia, with a seemingly endless parade of athletes and coaches and a spectacular display; Aborigine runner Cathy Freeman ignited an Olympic ring of fire.

Birthdays:

Actor Forrest Compton is 92.

Comedian Norm Crosby is 90.

Actor Henry Darrow is 84.

Baseball Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry is 79.

Actress Carmen Maura is 72.

Opera singer Jessye Norman is 72.

Writer-director Ron Shelton is 72.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones is 71.

Movie director Oliver Stone is 71.

Quotes Of The Day:

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.” — Robert Penn Warren

13th September: Today In History

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 13th, the 256th day of 2017. There are 109 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

Events:

1788:  The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital.

1759:  During the French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.

1814:  During the War of 1812, British naval forces began bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore but were driven back by American defenders in a battle that lasted until the following morning.

1911:  The song “Oh, You Beautiful Doll,” a romantic rag by Nat D. Ayer and Seymour Brown, was first published by Jerome H. Remick & Co.

1923:  Miguel Primo de Rivera, the captain general of Catalonia, seized power in Spain.

1948:  Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

1959:  Elvis Presley first met his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.)

1962:  Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black student, declaring in a televised address, “We will not drink from the cup of genocide.”

1971:  A four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed the lives of 32 inmates and 11 hostages.

1977:  Conductor Leopold Stokowski died in Hampshire, England, at age 95.

1989:  Fay Vincent was elected commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti (juh-MAH’-tee).

1997:  Funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.

2002:  The earliest known online use of the term “selfie” (a photographic self-portrait, usually taken with a smartphone) occurred on an Australian Broadcasting Corp. website forum; it came from a man named Nathan Hope, who denied coining the term, saying it was “common slang.”

Birthdays:

Actress Barbara Bain is 86.

Actress Eileen Fulton (TV: “As the World Turns”) is 84.

Actor Joe E. Tata is 81.

TV producer Fred Silverman is 80.

Rock singer David Clayton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears) is 76.

Actress Jacqueline Bisset is 73.

Singer Peter Cetera is 73.

Quotes Of The Day:

 “Better to be without logic than without feeling.” — Charlotte Bronte (BRAWN’-tee),

12th September: Today In History

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2017. There are 110 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

Events:

1942:  During World War II, a German U-boat off West Africa torpedoed the RMS Laconia, which was carrying Italian prisoners of war, British soldiers and civilians; it’s estimated more than 1,600 people died while some 1,100 survived after the ship sank. The German crew, joined by other U-boats, began rescue operations. (On September 16, the rescue effort came to an abrupt halt when the Germans were attacked by a U.S. Army bomber; as a result, U-boat commanders were ordered to no longer rescue civilian survivors of submarine attacks.)

1814:  The Battle of North Point took place in Maryland during the War of 1812 as American forces slowed British troops advancing on Baltimore.

1846:  Elizabeth Barrett secretly married Robert Browning at St. Marylebone Church in London.

1914:  During World War I, the First Battle of the Marne ended in an Allied victory against Germany.

1938:  Adolf Hitler demanded the right of self-determination for the Sudeten (soo-DAYT’-un) Germans in Czechoslovakia.

1944:  The Second Quebec Conference opened with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in attendance.

1953:  Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (boo-vee-AY’) in Newport, Rhode Island.

1960:  Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addressed questions about his Roman Catholic faith, telling the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, “I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.”

1974:  Emperor Haile Selassie (HY’-lee sehl-AH’-see) was deposed by Ethiopia’s military after ruling for 58 years.

1977:  South African black student leader and anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko (BEE’-koh), 30, died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.

1986:  Joseph Cicippio (sih-SIHP’-ee-oh), the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, was kidnapped (he was released in December 1991).

1987:  Reports surfaced that Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden had borrowed, without attribution, passages of a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock (KIHN’-ik) for one of his own campaign speeches. (The Kinnock report, along with other damaging revelations, prompted Biden to drop his White House bid.)

1992:  The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off, carrying with it Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space; Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space; and Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese national to fly on a U.S. spaceship. Police in Peru captured Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman. Actor Anthony Perkins died in Hollywood at age 60.