Today in history: Abacha coup,recession hit Japan.

2015 - Suicide bomber kills more than 30 in a market in  Yola, Nigeria.

2015 - Ireland's first same-sex wedding takes place.

2014 - The church o Englands adopts legislation enabling the appointment o female            
           bishops.

2013 - Giorgi Margvelashvili becomes the president of Georgia

2013 - 50 people are killed after  a Boeing 737 aircraft crashed in Kazan, Russia.

2012 - 50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed after a train collides with a school bus in            manfalut,Egypt.

2008 - Japan , the world's second-biggest economy, slides into its first  recession in seven y                years.

2006 - Official naming of element 111,Roentgenium (Rg).

2000 - Alberto fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.

1998 - Whiney Houston releases "My Love Is Your Love "

1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of                        Hatshepsut.

1993 - General Dani Abacha leads a military Coup in Nigeria that overthrows the government             of Ernest Shonekan.

1978 - Ayatollah Khomeini frees most black and female US hostages .

1973 - Greek regime attacks student with tanks ,hundreds killed

1956 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test.

1951 - Britain reports development of the world's first nuclear - powered heating system.

1938 - Italy passes it's own version of anti-jewish Nurembers laws.

1933 - United States recognizes Soviet Union.

1877 - Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars,Armenia.

1863 - Lincoln begins first draft of his Geltyburg Address.

1831 - Ecuador  and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia.

1558 - Elizabeth 1 aged 25 ascend English throne upon death of her half sister Queen                           "bloody" Mary.

1278 - 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins.