1877: George Taubman Goldie arrived in the Niger Delta in 1877
1885: Oil Rivers Protectorate proclaimed by the British after they had defeated of King Jaja of Opobo, the Oba of Benin and subdued all prominent oil merchants of the Niger Delta.
1893: Oil Rivers Protectorate renamed Niger Coast Protectorate with Calabar as capital.
1890's: British reporter Flora Shaw, who later married Lord Frederick Lugard, suggests that the country be named "Nigeria" after the Niger River.
1897: The British overthrew Oba Ovonramwen of Benin, one of the last independent West African kings.
1900: The Niger Coast Protectorate, merged with the colony and protectorate of Lagos, was renamed the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria
On this date:
Jan. 22, 1984, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington Redskins 38-9 to win Super Bowl XVIII (18), played at Tampa Stadium in Florida; the CBS-TV broadcast featured Apple Computer's famous "1984" commercial introducing the Macintosh computer.
In 1498, during his third voyage
to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrived at the
present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent.
In 1901, Britain's Queen Victoria died at age 81.
In
1917, President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe,
calling for "peace without victory." (By April, however, America also
was at war.)
In 1922, Pope Benedict XV died; he was succeeded by Pius XI.
In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy.
In 1953, the Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway.
Five years ago: President Barack Obama signed an executive order to
close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp within a year (however, the
facility remains in operation, with Republican and some Democratic
lawmakers repeatedly blocking efforts to transfer terror suspects to the
United States).
One year ago: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-line bloc
fared worse than expected in a parliamentary election, forcing
Netanyahu to negotiate a broad coalition deal.
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