The request for change of title from Bale was granted by the British administration and was gazette on the 9th of July, 1936.
This day 9th July 1936, the title of BALE OF IBADANLAND was changed to OLUBADAN, with Oba Aleshinloye as its first Olubadan having been BALE since 1930. Oba Abass Aleshinloye who was also referred to as Baale Elelubo served as the king until his death in 1946.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 17/06
JUNE 17TH
1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark
1944 – Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland
1945 – Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
1967 – China becomes world’s 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
1970 – Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
1988 – Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
1991 – South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1867 – John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor (shorthand)
1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Oranienbaum, Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [OS 05/06]
1940 – George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate
1943 – Barry Manilow, New York City, American singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs)
1980 – Venus Williams, Lynwood California, tennis star
FAMOUS DEATHS
1947 – Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, dies at 62
1981 – Yitzhak Zuckerman [Itzhak Zuckerman], Jewish resistance hero in World War II and one of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 65
2012 – Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cop, dies at 47
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