The Kano air disaster was a chartered Boeing 707 passenger flight on 22 January 1973 that crashed while attempting to land at Kano International Airport. It is the deadliest aviation disaster ever to take place in Nigeria,[1] as 176 passengers and crew perished in the crash. There were 26 survivors. [wikipedia]
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1771 Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
1798 Coup d’état in Batavian Republic
1824 Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast
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1842 Charles Dickens arrives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife, Catherine
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