THE NATIONAL POPULATION COMMISSION WAS INAUGURATED BEING A STATUTORY BODY GIVEN THE RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT A FREE AND FAIR POPULATION COUNT FOR THE COUNTRY BY THE BABANGIDA ADMINISTRATION. THIS BODY WAS THEN GIVEN A THREE – YEAR MANDATE TO CONDUCT AN ACCURATE CENSUS FOR THE COUNTRY.
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This Day in History 22/04
APRIL 22ND
1954 – USSR joins UNESCO
1970 – 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
1970 – Flat Earth celebrated
1971 – Soyuz 10 launched
1972 – Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on Moon
1974 – Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1983 – Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth
1988 – The Nigerian National Population Commission was inaugurated
1993 – Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Wash DC
1993 – The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
1994 – 7,000 Tutsi’s slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda
2013 – Manchester United defeat Aston Villa to claim the 2012/2013 English Premier Leag
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1870 – Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist and Premier of Russia
1906 – Eddie Albert, [Heimberger], Rock Island Illinois, actor (Roman Holiday, Green Acres)
1923 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (Charlie’s Angels), (d. 2006)
1937 – Jack Nicholson, NJ, actor (One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest, Shining)
1979 – Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
FAMOUS DEATHS
1830 – Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary/historian, dies at 69
1778 – James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies
1980 – Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman’s USA Canteen), dies at 72
1989 – Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist and Nobel laureate (discovered the elements technetium, astatine and the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton), dies at 84 of a heart attack
1994 – Richard Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of a stroke at 81
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