TODAY IN HISTORY - 15th Dec, 2025 - Africa World News

TODAY IN HISTORY – 15th Dec, 2025 – Africa World News

By Valentine Uchechukwu Ndukwu.

Whatever you see history as, will determine how you live your life everyday because the events that happen around you will not just shape you but equally make strong statements about your future.

This is the gospel according to V. John Simeon, The Mega Icon.

Take a look at some events in the past

On this day in 1869, the short-lived Republic of Ezo was proclaimed in the Ezo area of Japan. It is the first attempt to establish a democracy in Japan.

Still on this day in 1871, sixteen-year-old telegraphist Ella Stewart keys and sends the first telegraphed message from Arizona Territory at the Deseret Telegraph Company office in Pipe Spring.

According to Today in History, on this day in 1899, British Army forces were defeated at the Battle of Colenso in Natal, South Africa, the third and final battle fought during the Black Week of the Second Boer War.

Sadly on this day in 1914, a gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, killed 687.

It was on this day in 2013 that the South Sudanese Civil War began when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.