TODAY IN HISTORY

Towns throughout Ondo State erupted into violence. The  cause was popular reaction against the result of the gubernatorial elections which favored the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1983

Cyprus, the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, became an independent republic. in 1960

Elvis Presley died at Graceland, his Memphis,Tenn., home, from heart failure at age 42 in 1977

Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin died. in 2003