 You're welcome back to the breakfast and floss to the Africa. It's now time for today in history and we're going back to the year 1986 on this in history September the 8th Oprah Winfrey went national You know the show was broadcast, you know nationally for the first time today in history It was a daytime television talk show that turned her into one of the biggest most powerful, you know You know business show in in in America. She featured wealthiest people some of the most influential women in America You also went into be one of the most highest rated talk shows in TV history That show was a huge success It was highly influential to many young stars many young broadcasters It was also one of the longest-running daytime television shows in history Oprah Winfrey used that platform to go ahead to educate people she featured book clubs and interviews self-improvement segments Philanthropic forays into world events as well Winfrey truly became a media mogul and she branched out into books and magazines Radio musical theater and the web she even on the school So Oprah Winfrey really is an embodiment of you know success of you know of the woman And she really has blazed the trail you know shine the lights for the rest of us to follow And it was in this thing history that our television show went national Absolutely, and also made her one of the richest women on earth, you know black a billionaire woman She also of course set the pace and created you know what Television you know is and talk shows really should be For a lot of people she basically walked so that many people that we see today could run On television. All right Let's move to 1978 and this happened in Tehran. It's something called black Friday It's a black Friday massacre where 88 lives were lost on this day You know and I said earlier that this is something down an event really that changed the history of that country It's a black Friday massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran and it resulted in 88 deaths It also marked the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran The deaths were described as a pivotal event in Iran revolution that ended any hope for compromise between the protest movement and the regime of Shah Muhammad Pallavi The incident is described by a historian as a sea of blood between the Shah and the people It's not to have marked the point of no return for the revolution and it led to the abolition of Iran's Monarchy less than a year later It also believed that black Friday played a crucial role in further radicalizing the protest movement on the same day In other parts of the capital 24 people died in clashes with martial law forces one female making a total casualties on the same day 88 So I like you know, you know for me, you know the interesting part of this whole Story is the fact that it changed and it ended the monarchy monarchy system in Iran Sadly lives had to be lost, you know, but every now and then in history in countries a very very very Disaster so dastardly moment goes on to completely change the direction of trajectory of a country You know, a lot of people were thinking oh, maybe it was the Nsans protest here in Nigeria A lot of people thought maybe it was the Occupy Nigeria protest in 2012, you know, there's been, you know one instance here or there but That hasn't happened in recent times But you know once again something needs to something needs to go to move really for Something is to give that's the thing. That's the word a forward change, you know to eventually occur Hopefully it might be tomorrow in the southeast. I hope that you know people in South to be able to see that yes You know, we we also have a voice. Yes Yeah, maybe has it say some of us are sympathetic to their cause, but we also have a voice We're not going to sit home on Mondays anymore. Hmm. Indeed this this really was a day that changed everything for Iran And I believe that every people really have a breaking point. Absolutely. All right. That's it on today in history 1986 when Oprah Winfrey first went national And of course in Tehran the Black Friday massacre happened on this day 1978 stay with us when we come back We're going into our first major conversation for today And it is concerning the president's visit to a most state where he's going to commission certain projects and the IPO Be declaring a seat at home order for the same day How do things play out? We're going to be joined by the deputy president of Hanez and Igbo Worldwide, which he'll cook who's joining us this morning. Stay with us