Leon Frank Czolgosz was an American steelworker and anarchist who assassinated President William McKinley on September 6, 1901, in Buffalo, New York. The president died on September 14 after his wound became infected.
On this day: in history (2005), Rosa Parks died at 92. She was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man in 1955 helped ignite the American civil rights movement. The United States Congress honoured her as “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake’s order to vacate a row of four seats in the “colored” section in favour of a White passenger, once the “White” section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws, and she helped inspire the Black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year. The case became bogged down in the state courts, but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle resulted in a November 1956 decision that bus segregation is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. #myhistorydiary #history #nigeria #blacklivesmatter #freedom Created by Okey Obiabunmo
On this day: in history (1866), John and Simeon Reno popularly known as the Reno Brothers Gang, staged the first train robbery in American history, making off with $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana. Before the Reno Brothers robbery, previous crimes had all been burglaries of stationary trains sitting in depots. The Reno brothers’ contribution to criminal history was to stop a moving train in a sparsely populated region where they could carry out their crime without risking interference from the law. Other criminal gangs, like Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch, found that robbing trains was so easy and lucrative that for a time, they made it their criminal specialty. The railroad owners, however, were not about to sit back and let Reno gang or any other bandit freely liquidate their investments. To their dismay, would-be train robbers increasingly found that the cash and precious metals on trains were well protected in massive safes watched over by heavily armed guards. As a result, by the late 19th century, train robbery was becoming an increasingly difficult and dangerous profession. The Reno Brothers robbery gang was broken up by the lynchings of ten of its members by vigilante mobs in 1868. The murders created an international diplomatic incident with Canada and Great Britain, a general public uproar, and international newspaper coverage. No one was ever identified or prosecuted for the lynchings. #myhistorydiary #history #robbery #crime #nigeria Created by Okey Obiabunmo
Today in history (2011), Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison for his wife’s murder, was released after DNA evidence implicated another man in the crime.
Today in history (1792), the National Convention of France announced the abolition of French monarchy, giving birth to the First French Republic.
Today in history (1894), Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist and social activist born into slavery escaped to Philadelphia. She subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends
Today in history (2015), Police in Texas announced they will not file charges against Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim high school student who was arrested after he brought in a homemade clock that a teacher said looked like a bomb.
Today in history (1966), the South African Prime Minister and architect of apartheid Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death by parliamentary messenger named Dimitri Tsafendas.
Today, September 5, in 1995 Zulu Sofola, the first Nigerian published female playwright and dramatist, died. She was aged 60. Sofola was also a university teacher and became the first female Professor of Theater Arts in Africa.
Today in history (2009), Gani Fawehinmi died after a prolonged battle with lung cancer, and was buried on 15 September 2009. He was 71 years old.
Today in history (2002), Barnabas Igwe, chairman of Nigeria Bar Association Onitsha Branch, Anambra State, and his pregnant wife were brutally murdered by a group of armed men as they returned from an evening outing.Â
Warren Buffet is an American investor, business tycoon and philanthropist, who is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
In 1988, Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first writer from an Arabic-speaking country to win the prestigious award.
Today in 2011, Steve Jobs announced his resignation as Apple’s CEO. Jobs continued to work for Apple until the day before his death six weeks later.
Today in history (1982), Heloise Ruth First was brutally killed by a letter bomb in Mozambique, sent by South African government agents.
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