TODAY IN HISTORY – 28th May, 2026 – Africa World News
By Valentine Uchechukwu Ndukwu.
The remarkable British historian E. H. Carr offered this famous definition of a historian’s role in society:”Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
In essence, Today in History team believes that historians choose which facts to share based on their own beliefs. You must understand the writer to truly understand the history.
On that note, behold some moments trapped in the past, in today in history.
On this day in 1948, Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
Still on this day in 1958, Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero
Again, in 1975, fifteen West African countries signed the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States
It was on this day in 1991 that the capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
In 1999, in Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper was put back on display.
According to Today in History, in 2002, the last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
Regrettably in 2016, Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes.
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