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This is an incomplete list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by History Channel/H2/Military History Channel in the United States. Current programming [ edit ]
History (stylized in all caps), formerly and commonly known as the History Channel, is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company's General Entertainment Content Division.
First TV broadcasts in France on February 13 on Paris PTT Vision. 1936: The 1936 Summer Olympics becomes the first Olympic Games to be broadcast on television. 1937: The BBC Television Service broadcasts the world's first televised Shakespeare play, a thirty-minute version of Twelfth Night, and the first football match, Arsenal F.C. vs. Arsenal ...
The history of Nigeria can be traced to the earliest inhabitants whose date remains at least 13,000 BC through the early civilizations such as the Nok culture which began around 1500 BC. Numerous ancient African civilizations settled in the region that is known today as Nigeria, such as the Kingdom of Nri , [ 1 ] the Benin Kingdom , [ 2 ] and ...
It was released on Netflix [2] on the 60th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. [3] The film series is based on two books — Possessed: A History of Law & Justice in the Crown Colony of Lagos 1861–1906 and A Platter of Gold: Making Nigeria — by retired attorney general and commissioner for justice in Lagos State, Olasupo Shasore. [4]
Everything you need to know about the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final
The first people of ancestry from what is now modern Nigeria to arrive in what is now the modern United States were brought by force as slaves. [9] These enslaved people were not called Nigerians but were known by their ethnic nations due to Nigeria not being a country until the early 1900s, after the slave trade was over.
In October 1976, Nigeria rejected the Anglo–American proposal for a Rhodesian settlement, [22] and, in March 1977, the New York Times correspondent for West Africa, John Darnton, was arrested in Lagos and then expelled from Nigeria, amid continued official and public paranoia about American spies.