TODAY IN HISTORY – 11th Nov, 2025 – Africa World News
By Valentine Uchechukwu Ndukwu.
It was The Mega Icon who said, “We play down history’s lessons, but in doing so, we downplay the future costs.”
Today in History breaks it down and puts it this way, the more we play down the importance of learning from history, the more we realize that future mistakes are often already embedded in the patterns we’ve failed to address.
On this day in 1675, Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
Still on this day in 1831, In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
Today in history reveals that on this day in 1965, Southern Rhodesia’s Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
It was on this day in 1975 that Angola got their independence from Portugal.
On this day in 1984, Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist died. For the records, he was born in 1899.
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