By Valentine Uchechukwu Ndukwu.
Whatever history captures for us to look at, should never be overlooked. Whatever Today in History serves you as a historical event, should not for your reading/viewing pleasure but a reference point.
Do yourself some good by carefully scrolling down to behold some remarkable historical events that were.

On this day in 1884, George Eastman received a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

Still on this day in 1888, Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

According to Today in History, on this day in 1912, former president Theodore Roosevelt was shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.

Remember the 1913 Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners. It took place on this day in 1913.

It was on this day in 1981 that Vice President Hosni Mubarak was elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

Regrettably on this day, Today in History reports that in 2017, a massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others.

In 1930, the renowned Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko. However, he died in 1997.

In 1993, on this day, Charlie Kirk, American media personality and political activist. Sadly, he died in 2025.

In Tanzania, today is Nyerere Day

Today is World Standards Day
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