Today in History for June 5 - Pope John Paul II was born.

Pope John Paul II

On May 18, 1920, Karol Jozef Wojtyla is born in the Polish town of Wadowice, 35 miles southwest of Krakow.Wojtyla went on to become Pope John Paul II, history’s most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century. After high school, the future pope enrolled at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University, where he studied philosophy and literature and performed in a theater group. During World War II, Nazis occupied Krakow and closed the university, forcing Wojtyla to seek work in a quarry and, later, a chemical factory. By 1941, his mother, father, and only brother had all died, leaving him the sole surviving member of his family.

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June 5 seems to be very eventful, as at;
1661 Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

1833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage

1902 Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842) dies.

History is also made today June 5 2017 as;

Portland protests

Gulf states shakeup - Arab nations rift
London bridge attacked by terrorist - ISIS claims attack

London bridge attacked by ISIS

Terrorist attack London bridge - June 05 2017

 London's trying to return to some sense of normalcy after the United Kingdom suffered its third terror attack in as many months. Seven people were killed Saturday night when three men in a van deliberately ran over pedestrians on London Bridge, then jumped out of the vehicle and stabbed people at random at nearby Borough Market. The attackers were shot dead by police. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack but offered no evidence to back up the claim.

Police have ID'd the three attackers and are expected to name them soon. Police also conducted raids and arrested 11 people. London Mayor Sadiq Khan vowed his city wouldn't be cowed by terrorism, while British Prime Minister Theresa May promised a tougher attitude to fighting homegrown extremism.

Survivors and witnesses described scenes of horror: the van knocking people "nearly 20 feet in the air" on the bridge. One person jumped into the River Thames to escape. In a diner, terrified patrons hid in the back of a restaurant from a man who ran in with a "massive knife."

President Donald Trump stirred controversy with his tweets after the attack. He blasted Khan's response to the attacks and renewed the call for his travel ban before offering more traditional words of support to the people of London. CNN's Chris Cillizza says the tweets show Trump is sort of the "anti-President."

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SOURCE: CNN

4 Arab nations cut diplomatic ties to Qatar as rift deepens

In this Friday, June 2, 2017 Saudi King
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, left,
talks to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,
 Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince and
Deputy Commander in Chief of the Emirates
 Armed Forces in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Four Arab nations cut diplomatic ties to Qatar on Monday over its relations with Iran and support of Islamist groups, isolating the tiny energy rich country by cutting off its land, sea and air routes to the outside world.

Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing their diplomatic staff from Qatar as regional airlines quickly announced they’d suspend service to its capital, Doha.

Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup and is home to some 10,000 American troops at a major U.S. military base, criticized the move as a “violation of its sovereignty.” It long has denied supporting militant groups and described the crisis as being fueled by “absolute fabrications” stemming from the recent hack of its state-run news agency.

The countries all ordered their citizens out of Qatar and gave Qataris abroad 14 days to return home to their peninsular nation. The countries also said they would eject Qatar’s diplomats from their territories.

Qatar’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said there was “no legitimate justification” for the countries’ decision, though it vowed its citizens wouldn’t be affected by it. “The Qatari Government will take all necessary measures to ensure this and to thwart attempts to influence and harm the Qatari society and economy,” it said.

SOURCE: SEATTLE TIMES

BLOODY OUTRAGE!!! Despite Nationwide Hunger, APC Releases Hundreds Of Millions To Build 189 Mosques In The North

Buhari builds mosque despite
 hunger in Nigeria

 Despite the economic recession and wide spread hunger, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has approved a whopping sum of N566 million, to build 189 Mosques in Sokoto State.

The State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, through the Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Mani Katami, disclosed this at the flag-off of the 2017 Zakkat and endowment distribution and special assistance to orphans, held in Illela Local Government Area of the State.

He added that his Ministry had provided grants to some Islamic organisations and community development associations, to the tune of N805 million, from 2015 to date.

Also speaking, the Acting Chairman of the Sokoto State Zakkat Commission, Lawal Maidoki, said that 18,200 orphans and the needy from across the 85 districts of the State, would be provided with cloths, 50kg of rice, meat, and cash, because of the fasting and Sallah celebration.

In his speech, the Regional Governor of Koni in Niger Republic, underscored the significance of feeding the needy in the holy month of Ramadan.

While flagging off the distribution, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, reiterated his government’s commitment towards improving the living standard of the people.

SOURCE: POST NIGERIA

How Table Manners as We Know Them Were a Renaissance Invention

The invention of table manner/

In spite of the general easygoing attitude of the medieval period toward hygiene, table manners were not born in a vacuum. In Italy, the culture that would give rise to Catherine’s crusade for table manners took root in the medieval period itself. Well-born little Florentines, including Catherine, were brought up on the manual Fifty Courtesies for the Table,written by Fra Bonvicino da Riva in the 1290s. Even so, despite such precedents, there is little doubt that Catherine’s arrival in France coincided with a continent-wide Renaissance movement to raise the bar on dining customs.

To judge from the stature of some writers, table manners were no trivial matter. In 1530, three years before Catherine’s journey to France, Erasmus of Rotterdam found time out from creating a modern version of the Greek New Testament and criticizing the abuses of the Church to write a treatise that included a study of table manners.

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SOURCE: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Nigerian Navy and Police Fight - Many feared dead.

Nigerian Navy and Police Saga.

 Three policemen were reportedly burnt to death, following a clash between the police and some officers of Nigerian navy in Calabar, Cross River state capital, on Tuesday.

According to witnesses, the attack began shortly after 8.30 p.m., and was still underway as at 10.19 p.m. at Akim Divisional Headquarters

According to Premium Times sources, the confrontation was a continuation of an initial skirmish between a police traffic officer and a naval officer at a traffic light near the Calabar Stadium along the Airport Road on Tuesday afternoon. “Some naval officers ran the red light and police traffic officers intervened, but rather than listen, they descended on the policemen and beat them up,” a witness said. “This was around 5 p.m.” “Police officers now called for back up and and the Navy also called for reinforcement and they took over the road leading to the airport.

But the Navy Commander and police commissioner in the state intervened and the two sides backed down,” the witness said. “However, around 8:00 p.m., when everyone thought the matter had been resolved, naval officers descended on Akim Police Station and started shooting and burnt down the facility.

“We confirmed three bodies but we feared there are more,” the witness said. The witness also accused the naval officers of blocking fire fighters from extinguishing the inferno set at the police station.

SOURCE: NAIJ

Okorocha rejects daughter’s School’s board appointment by Buhari’s FG.

Chief Rochas Okorocha

The Imo state Governor, Rochas Okorocha has rejected the appointment into the Board of the Federal College of Education and Technology, Omoku, Rivers state of his second daughter, Uju Anwuka, by the Buhari-led Federal Government. The governor who said he rejected the appointment because it was obviously not done in good faith also said that the appointment looked suspicious because nobody had informed him of the appointment. He said instead, he heard of the appointment like any other Nigerians.

His statement read thus: “To the governor, the appointment was obviously not done in good faith. Whoever was the brain behind the appointment did so out of unbridled mischief. “Otherwise, the person behind the appointment would have had the courtesy of either informing the father or the mother. “The truth of the matter is that the governor’s daughter does not need the appointment. The governor has therefore asked whoever was behind the appointment to withdraw it, since the daughter would not have needed the appointment, even if he had not become governor.

“Indeed, the governor has the feeling that whoever was behind the appointment did it with something else at the back of his or her mind; otherwise, the person would have acted well his or her part by informing him or the mother, or even the daughter herself. “The daughter and the entire family reject the appointment.”

SOURCE: VANGUARD NGR