| 1848 | The saxophone was patented by Adolphe Sax |
| 1911 | King George V of Britain was crowned |
| 1951 | British diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, two soviet spies, fled to the USSR |
| 1956 | Colonel Nasser was elected as President in Egypt |
| 1962 | A ceasefire in Laos, Asia, was announced |
| 1968 | A stampede at an Argentinian football match left 73 dead |
| 1973 | The Pope opened the vatican gallery of modern art |
| 1981 | Governor Abubakar Balarabe Musa is impeached by the Kaduna State House of Assembly. |
| 1986 | The US Justice Department announced that employees with AIDS could be fired |
| 1989 | The West Midlands Serious Crime Squad was disbanded |
| 1993 | Babangida on national television offered his reasons for annulling the results of the Presidential election. At least 100 people were killed in riots in the southwest, Abiola's home area. |
| 1993 | President Babangida annuls the June 12 election. |
| 1994 | Chief Abiola arrested and detained for declaring himself President. |
| 1997 | General Abacha justifies importation of fuel as a measure to control the fuel scarcity that has slowed down economic activities nationwide. |
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