TODAY IN HISTORY
In 2007 - Nigeria
Militant leader, Mujahid Asari Dokubo, whose detention on treason charges since 2005 has sparked kidnappings in the Niger Delta, was provisionally freed on health grounds as part of the proposed amnesty deal. the Militant freed 10 Indian hostages including 2 women and children.
2007 - Austria
Kurt Waldheim born 1918, former United Nations (UN) secretary-General (1972-1982), died. He was elected Austrian President in 1986 despite an international scandal about his secretive World War II military service for the Nazis.
2005 - South/Africa
Thabo Mbeki President of S/Africa dismissed his deputy Jacob Zuma, after he was implicated in a corruption scandal, throwing wide open the question of who will become the next leader of south/Africa. Mbeki soon picked Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, his Minister for minerals and energy to replace Zuma.
1954 and 1946 - USA
In 1954 U.S President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
1946 Donald Trump, New York real estate mogul and Republican candidate was born in NYC.
1945 - Myanmar
Myanmar (Burma) was liberated by the British.
1940 - Poland
A group of 728 Polish political prisoners became the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp, which the Nazis Opened in German-occupied Poland.
1777 - USA
The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes, created by Betsy Ross, as the national flag. America's Flag Day, commemorates the date when John Adams spoke the following words before Congress "Resolved, that the Flag of the 13 United States shall be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; white on a blue field representing a new constellation". Over the years, there have been 27 versions of the US flag.
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