Evidence from archaeological findings have shown that there was a history of human existence in Nigeria which has been dated to as far back as 9000...
Nigeria’s population was just 16 million in 1911. It is projected to hit 444 million by 2050, surpassing the US and becoming the 4th largest in...
1858 Abraham Lincoln, in accepting the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, declares that, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” 1952 Anne Frank:...
On April 7th 1994, Rwandan armed forces kill 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers in a successful effort to discourage international intervention in the genocide that had begun only...
Modern rock icon Kurt Cobain commits suicide on 5th April 1994. His body was discovered inside his home in Seattle, Washington, three days later by Gary Smith,...
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at theLorraine...
On the 1st of April 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes on each other.
On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, and attended by French...
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr.
On the 27th of March 1952 Kiichiro Toyoda, founder of the Toyota Motor Corporation, which in 2008 surpassed America’s General Motors as the world’s largest automaker,...