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18 hours ago · 5 May 1949. ( 1949-05-05) Website. coe.int. The Council of Europe ( CoE; French: Conseil de l'Europe, CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe. [2] Founded in 1949, it brings together 46 member states [b] with a population of approximately 675 million as of 2023; it ...
18 hours ago · Elbridge Lapham (Class III) Republican. The 1881 United States Senate special elections in New York was held from May 31 to July 22 by the New York State Legislature to elect two U.S. senators (Class 1 and Class 3) to represent New York in the United States Senate. The elections were triggered by the May 16 resignations of Senators Roscoe ...
18 hours ago · Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (/ ˈ d ɑː l i, d ɑː ˈ l iː / DAH-lee, dah-LEE, Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli], Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in ...
- 23 January 1989 (aged 84), Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
18 hours ago · From 1110 to 1291, the town and Lordship of Beirut was part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The city was taken by Saladin in 1187 and recaptured in 1197 by Henry I of Brabant as part of the German Crusade of 1197. John of Ibelin, known as the Old Lord of Beirut, was granted the lordship of the city in 1204.
18 hours ago · 1948 Not awarded because "there was no suitable living candidate." (A tribute to the recently assassinated Mohandas Gandhi in India.) 1949 Lord Boyd-Orr (1880–1971) United Kingdom "for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger and want, thereby helping to remove a major cause of military conflict and war." 1950 Ralph Bunche (1904–1971)
18 hours ago · The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019 with 47,074,800 registered voters [3] entitled to vote to elect members of the House of Commons. The Conservative Party won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats, [n 5] a net gain of 48, on 43.6% of the popular vote, the highest percentage for any party ...
18 hours ago · Mit dem Sputnik -Satelliten begann 1957 das Zeitalter der Raumfahrt. Gleichzeitig ist er auch Ausdruck der Systemkonkurrenz zwischen USA und Sowjetunion, die sich auch in der Eisenhower-Doktrin niederschlägt. Währenddessen wird mit den Römischen Verträgen der bedeutendste Grundstein der europäischen Einigung gelegt.
