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3 hours ago · In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a partition plan for Palestine, leading to the 1948 Palestine war. As a result, Israel was established on the area the UN had proposed for the Jewish state, as well as almost 60 per cent of the area proposed for the Arab state.
1 day ago · In 1947, Iran was among 13 countries that voted against the United Nations Partition Plan for the British Mandate of Palestine. Two years later, Iran also voted against Israel's admission to the United Nations. Iran was the second Muslim-majority country to recognize Israel as a sovereign state after Turkey.
1 day ago · The Committee of Union and Progress ( CUP, also translated as the Society of Union and Progress; Ottoman Turkish: اتحاد و ترقى جمعيتی, romanized : İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti ), refers to several revolutionary groups and a political party active between 1889 and 1926 in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.
- 1 November 1918; 104 years ago
- Syncretic
- 6 February 1889; 134 years ago, (as an organization)
1 day ago · The 1952 Summer Olympics ( Finnish: Kesäolympialaiset 1952; officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( Finnish: XV olympiadin kisat; and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in 1938 that it would be unable to host the 1940 ...
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- Helsinki, Finland
- 149 in 17 sports (23 disciplines)
- Helsingin Olympiastadion
1 day ago · t. e. Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution. It was the predominant ideology of most communist governments throughout the 20th century. [1] It was developed by Joseph Stalin in Russia and drew on elements of Bolshevism ...
1 day ago · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). [citation needed] The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the ...
1 day ago · May 22. 334 BCE: The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. This was the first step of a “journey” that would lead to the turning Egypt and Asia Minor (a territory that included Jerusalem and Judea) into bastions of Hellenistic culture.
