TODAY IN HISTORY – 6th Sept, 2026 – ORBITS NEWS 

TODAY IN HISTORY – 6th Sept, 2026 – ORBITS NEWS

By Valentine Uchechukwu Ndukwu.

If we cannot direct the wind, we can at least adjust our sail. The same is true about our history, we cannot do so much about the things that were but we can determine how they reoccur or otherwise.

Today in history has some statements to make on diverse historical events. Please grab a chair and scroll down gently.

On this day in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.

Regrettably on this day in 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.

Amazingly on this day in 1968, Swaziland became independent.

Sadly on this day in 1997, the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people line the streets and 21⁄2 billion watch around the world on television.

Regrettably on this day in 2012, sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.

Again on this day in 2013, forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.

It was also on this day in 2018 that Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.

Still on this day in 2022, Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen’s final official duties before her death two days later.

Again according to Today in History, on this day in 2013, government troops killed 50 Boko Haram militants in the state of Borno.

Two remarkable Nigerians who have represented their country and made the nation proud were born on this day in the year of our Lord, 1980; Samuel Peter, the notable Nigerian boxer and Joseph Yobo, the amazing Nigerian footballer.

Until tomorrow when we come to you with another set of educational content on Today in History, keep being the point man ~ keep pointing in the right direction.