Today is Friday, Dec. 13, the 348th day of 2013. There are 18 days left in the year. History in Nigeria: In 1925, Ismail Babatunde Jose, journalist, administrator and chairman, board of trustees, Nigerian Media Merit Award, NMMA.
In 1984 Former Niger State Governor, Alhaji Awwal lbrahim, is found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment.
In 1997 General Oladipo Diya, Chief of General Staff, narrowly escapes a bomb explosion at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Inernational Airport, Abuja.
In 1936 Mahmud Waziri, a businessman and politician, was born. He was chairman of the All Peoples Party in 1999. He was a senator representing the old Gongola State.
On this date:
Dec. 13, 1862, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside launched futile attacks against entrenched Confederate soldiers during the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg; the soundly defeated Northern troops withdrew two days later. (It was during this battle that Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is said to have remarked: "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.")
In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office.
In 1944, during World War II, the U.S. cruiser Nashville was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze attack that claimed more than 130 lives.
In 2000, Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore conceded to Republican George W. Bush, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court shut down further recounts in Florida.
In 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, near his hometown of Tikrit.
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