Today In History [3rd August, 2015]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

Today in History
August 3

1347		Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrender to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege.
1492		Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his voyage to the new world.
1546		French printer Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, is hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature.
1553		Mary Tudor, the new Queen of England, enters London.
1610		Henry Hudson of England discovers a great bay on the east coast of Canada and names it for himself.
1692		French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of Steenkerke in the Netherlands.
1805		Mohammed Ali becomes the new ruler of Egypt.
1807		The trial of Aaron Burr begins. He is accused of plotting the secession of New England.
1864		Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama.
1882		Congress passes the Immigration Act, banning Chinese immigration for ten years.
1908		Allan Allensworth files the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California.
1911		Airplanes are used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli.
1914		Germany declares war on France.
1916		Sir Roger Casement is hanged for treason in England.
1945		Chinese troops under American General Joseph Stilwell take the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese.
1958		The first nuclear submarine USS Nautilus passes under the North Pole.
1967		President Lyndon B. Johnson announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam.
1972		Former Beatle Paul McCartney announces formation of his new group, Wings.
1975		Louisiana Superdome dedicated.
1977		Radio Shack unveils TRS-80 personal computer, which with Apple and Commodore would form the "1977 Trinity." Its price and Radio Shack’s established retail outlets made it a bestseller for several years.
1990		US commits naval forces to Persian Gulf region in wake of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
2004		Statue of Liberty’s pedestal reopens to visitors after being closed following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Born on August 3
1867		Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister during the general strike of 1926.
1887		Rupert Brooke, English poet who mainly wrote about World War I.
1900		Ernie Pyle, World War II correspondent who wrote about the common soldier.
1905		Maggie Kuhn, social activist and founder of "The Gray Panthers."
1909		Walter Van Tilberg, Western novelist who wrote The Ox-Bow Incident.
1920		P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James), British mystery writer.
1924		Leon Uris, writer whose works include Battle Cry and Exodus.
1926		Tony Bennett, singer ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco").
1941		Martha Stewart, business magnate and television personality.

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BREAKING NEWS: Judge Rules In Favour Of Jambites Against JAMB And UNILAG

Good day everyone, and big congrats to all aspiring undergraduates that were affected in the new jamb eligibility regulation.

I can assure you all that the matter has been resolved as we have finally gotten an order from the Federal High court, compelling Unilag and Jamb to include any students that scored 200marks &above. Other universities have also effected the change.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has repealed its earlier decision to redistribute candidates that sat for this year’s exams to institutions they (candidates) did not initially choose while filling their forms. JAMB has come under criticisms lately since it announced the plan. Some days ago, some candidates who chose the University of Lagos, UNILAG, and their parents staged a peaceful protest in Lagos both at Unilag and the Federal High Court.

Professor Dibu Ojerinde, JAMB Registrar, had explained that the redistribution was to help cushion the effect of spill overs from top class institutions, which insist on not reducing their cut off marks, including UNILAG. JAMB had announced cut off marks of 180 for universities in the country, while 150 for polytechnics and colleges of education. But the body has now rescinded its decision and has asked candidates to proceed to their first choice of institution for their post-UME exams following the court's verdict.

Though I wasn't in Lagos to attend the hearing but my reliable source says the judge delivered his judgement at exactly 12.20pm today & asked both Jamb & Unilag to revert its sudden policy wit immediate effect. A copy of the judgement has also been released.

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''Big Lies We Used To Tell Friends In Secondary School''

' See that aeroplane going! My dad is the pilot' I remember that to be one of my fables I gave friends in High School. As you all know, a school is a gathering of humans with different characters and attitudes. You get to meet some extra ordinary jovial people and some crazily weirdos you would wonder if they were humans.


And for the fact that there are a lot of people claiming they are rich in their family, you wouldn't want to be caught off guard. You also want to belong and claim your family owns Computer Village, even.

I had an imaginary uncle then in London that brought stuffs for me, I always told my friends. My uncle travelled every week to London. And when he came back, he made sure he came with a different car and a lot of goodies.

I once told my friends my uncle brought a Chewing Gum that never loses its taste. You will chew and chew and it continues to get sweetened the more it stays in your mouth. I was telling Samuel the other day on how I chewed the gum for 3days and later spat it out. He asked why I did that, since it doesn't lose its taste. I knew I had been caught off guard. But I still tried to cover up telling him I wanted to try the Macaroni flavour.

I claimed my younger ones were given birth to in the States, Tulsa, Oklahoma to be precise. I wasn't there at their birth, but I once went with my dad to celebrate my younger brothers birthday, when he was 3. We decided not to go by Flight. We took a speed boat instead and we spent 3 days on Sea.

Told them there were so many bus tops on the sea and what they basically sold are fishes. That there was a fish that looked like a Lion, people of that locality called it Fishion. I told them we saw Mermaids when we got to the American Sea. And they were waving at us. That mermaids are friendly beings and not evil.

Mind you, it wasn't me alone that did this. A guy came to join us then in SS2 . Abiola would tell us he spent his summers in Chicago, Michael Jordan was his next door neighbour. They practiced basketball together everymorning and immediately after practice, they always had enough to eat. We all believed anyway as this guy looked American.

I remember Toke, a girl like that. They had almost everything you mentioned that you have in your family, even the latest. There was a time a certain girl's parents bought a Mercedes Benz 200. Toke said her dad had 3 Mercedes Benz 2000 and it didn't run on petrol, but Olive Oil and it could recognize all of them in the family. Anytime they entered into the car, The car would mention their name and welcome them.

Ramon was someone we all believed his fables should have been noticed by the Military as this guy could make you believe anything. His lies were not on 4G Networks self, they run on Optical Fibers. Ramon once told us his Dad Rode on Bicycle to Saudi Arabia. and when we asked him how he crossed the sea, he said the bicycle was a special one and it could fly.

I also remember him telling us they had a tree in the compound that bore different fruits. That his dad was presented with that by a Djin in the desert, while he was travelling.

Dimeji made us to under that his dad fought in the World War 1. He fought along side the Germans and was decorated with so much Awards for his gallantry. That after World War I, he came back to fight Africa War 1 and was later invited to assist China in the Asia War 3. He surely capitalised on the fact that we might not be able to unravel the truth since the event happened in way past.

High school was fun anyway. Though we all later realized we were scoping each other as in one way or the other, we got to know where everyother person lived and we never saw anything we claimed to have.

The girl that claimed they had Mercedes Benz 2000, actually happened to be the daughter of a Commercial Bus Driver. Dimejis dad was just a Neighborhood Watch Official of the LAGOS State Government, Yes, Ramon's DAD was an Alahaji, but he never rode to Mecca, and they only happened to have lots of fruits in their compound that his mum simply sold them at the market.

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How To Check JAMB Re-assignment Status

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) wishes to inform the general public, most especially 2015 post-UTME candidates, that the portal for the checking of the institutions candidates are transferred to has been activated.

Follow the steps listed below to check the school you are re-posted to free;

1) Visit the JAMB website on (www.jamb.org.ng)

2) On the "2015 UTME" menu, click on "Check Where you have been posted for Admission"

3) Enter your JAMB Registration Number in the space provided and click on "Check" to access your information.

Best of luck To You all...

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PHOTOS: See What A Student Of Godfrey Okoye University Produced

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Today In History [27th July, 2015]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

Today in History
July 27
1214           At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England.
1245           Frederick II is deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege.
1586           Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia.
1663           British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
1689           Government forces defeat the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie.
1777           The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British.
1778           British and French fleets fight to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant.
1793           Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
1861           President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac.
1905           The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago.
1909           Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
1914           British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm Irish rebels.
1921           Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto.
1944           U.S. troops complete the liberation of Guam.
1953           Representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China sign an armistice at Panmunjon, Korea.
1964           President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.
1980           Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt.
1981           William Wyler, director of Ben Hur, dies.
1993           Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas.
2002           The largest air show disaster in history occurs when a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine, killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others.

Born on July 27
1768           Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary, assassin of Jean Paul Marat.
1777           Thomas Campbell, Scottish writer (The Pleasures of Hope).
1870           Hilaire Belloc, French writer (Cautionary Tales).
1906           Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager.
1908           Joseph Mitchell, writer for The New Yorker.
1930           David Hughes, English novelist (The Horsehair Sofa, The Man Who Invented Tomorrow).
1939           Michael Longley, Irish poet.
1940           Bharati Mukherjee, Indian novelist (The Middleman and Other Stories).

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