Story of Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, the Oba of Benin Who was Conquered and Exiled to Calabar by the British
This is the touching life story of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi who ruled the Benin empire before he was dethroned and exiled by the British. ...
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#FlashBack: The Untold Story of Nigeria's Civil War - BIAFRA
Secret American diplomatic dispatches, spread over 21,000 pages, have provided previously unknown information about the Nigerian Civil W...
On this day : 1986: Soviets launch space station Mir
The Soviets have opened a new phase in space exploration with the launch of the world's biggest space station, Mir. The successful ...
On this day 1904 : Madame Butterfly premieres
On this day in 1904, Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly premieres at the La Scala theatre in Milan, Italy. The young Puccini deci...
On this day 1972 : Beetle overtakes Model T as world’s best-selling car
On this day in 1972, the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle comes off the assembly line, breaking a world car production record held for mor...
ON THIS DAY 2001: Bhuj earthquake of 2001
A major earthquake struck Gujarat, India, on 26 January 2001 at 08:46 AM local time resulting in close to 13,823 deaths and exten...
ON THIS DAY 1905: World’s largest diamond found
On January 25, 1905, at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered during a routine inspection by ...
ON THIS DAY 1908: Boy Scouts movement begins
On January 24, 1908, the Boy Scouts movement begins in England with the publication of the first installment of Robert Baden-Powell’s Sc...
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