This Day in History MARCH | 25
Discover what happened on March 25 with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
MARCH 25
‘Scottsboro Boys’ are taken off train and wrongly accused
On March 25, 1931, in the so-called “Scottsboro Boys” case, nine young Black men were taken off a train in Alabama, accused of raping two white women; after years of convictions, death sentences and imprisonment, the nine were eventually vindicated.
Events in Nigerian History
- 1861-08-06 The British annex Lagos, Nigeria
- 1885-02-26 Berlin Conference gives Congo to Belgium and Nigeria to Great Britain
- 1900-01-01 British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria are established
- 1903-03-13 Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, the British claim supremacy on over 500,000 square miles
- 1914-01-01 Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria
- 1948-01-18 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- 1954-10-01 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
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