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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49162)9/29/2005 7:21:51 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (2) of 50167
 
This day in history..

British mandate in Palestine


1923: Set in motion by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British mandate for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was finally approved by the Council of the League of Nations and came into force this day in 1923.




1938: The American harness racehorse Greyhound established a trotting record for 1 mile in 1:551/4.

1938: Poland demanded the cession of Teschen, a rich region that had been contested and then divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia following World War I.

1918: German Chancellor Georg von Hertling tendered his resignation on the day of the Bulgarian armistice and the British attack of the Western Front during World War I.

1906: The United States occupied Cuba after the rebellion surrounding the reelection of Tomás Estrada Palma.

1833: King Ferdinand VII of Spain died, and his two-year-old daughter, Isabella II, was proclaimed queen.

642: Arab General 'Amr ibn al-'As marched into Alexandria, and the Arab conquest of Egypt, which had begun with an invasion three years earlier, ended in peaceful capitulation.




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