CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. November
  4. 11
  5. Taslim Olawale Elias

Births on November 11

Taslim Olawale Elias
1914Nov, 11

Taslim Olawale Elias

Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigerian academic and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (d. 1991)
Taslim Olawale Elias (11 November 1914 – 14 August 1991) was a Nigerian jurist. He was Attorney-General and Chief Justice of Nigeria and a judge and President of the International Court of Justice. He was a scholar who modernised and extensively revised the laws of Nigeria.

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1914

  • 28Jun

    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • 26Jul

    Bulgaria

    Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
  • 5Aug

    Traffic light

    In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
  • 15Aug

    Frank Lloyd Wright

    A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
  • 1Sep

    Petrograd

    St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.