Today is Monday, Dec. 16, the 351st day of 2012. There are 15 days left in the year. In 1920, Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams, lawyer and politician, was born in Lagos. He was the first Nigerian to become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
In 1932, Grace Alele-Williams, professor of mathematics, was born in Warri. She is the first Nigerian woman to become the head (vice-chancellor) of a Nigerian university, the University of Benin.
In 1932, Grace Alele-Williams, professor of mathematics, was born in Warri. She is the first Nigerian woman to become the head (vice-chancellor) of a Nigerian university, the University of Benin.
In 1987, the romantic comedy-drama "Moonstruck," starring Cher and Nicolas Cage, was released in New York City, the film's setting.
In 1991, the U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a vote of 111-25.
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush named former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean (kayn) to replace Henry Kissinger as head of the panel investigating the September 11 terror attacks. Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, in an interview on Black Entertainment Television, asked black Americans to forgive his seeming nostalgia for segregation. Canada ratified the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
A threatened New York City transit strike was averted. A jury in Baltimore acquitted former altar boy Dontee Stokes of attempted murder in the shooting of a Roman Catholic priest he'd claimed molested him a decade earlier.
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