Articles about rulers & dynasties across every continent and era, oldest first.
The Covenant bound members to cut all trade with an aggressor. Against Italy they applied it in part, left oil and Suez open, and offered Rome a slice.
· 1935Britain set June 1948 as the deadline on February 20, 1947; the June 3 plan cut it to August 15; commissions formed June 30 signed the line on August 12.
· 1947The armistice text says no nation is a signatory. Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr. and Gen. Nam Il signed it at Panmunjom at 10 a.m. on July 27, 1953.
· 1953Dulles to Eisenhower, March 1, 1953; the embassy's "Mosadeq victor" cable of August 16; a decree dated August 13. What the 2017 FRUS volume prints.
· 1953Royal Assent on February 7, 1957. Section 5 named March 6 as the appointed day; from then the Gold Coast was Ghana, outside British responsibility.
· 1957Eleven detainees died at Hola Camp, Kenya, on March 3, 1959. Nairobi blamed a water cart; the inquest found violence. Hansard 1959 to files opened in 2014.
· 1959April 1, 1960: the Security Council deplored, 9 to 0 with France and Britain abstaining, policies behind the Sharpeville shooting of March 21 (69 dead).
· 1960A U-2 flight on October 14, 1962 brought back 928 photographs of missile sites in Cuba. Two Khrushchev letters, a lost U-2 and Radio Moscow followed.
· 1962On May 27, 1967, 90.77% of Australian voters struck eight words from section 51 and all of section 127 of the Constitution; a second question failed.
· 1967On April 6, 1971, Archer Blood cabled that Washington was 'bending over backwards to placate' Pakistan. Niazi surrendered at Dhaka on December 16.
· 1971OAPEC cut output 5 percent a month from October 17, 1973, and embargoed the United States. A barrel went from $2.90 to $11.65; the ban ended in March 1974.
· 1973On July 6, 1986 the UN Secretary-General ruled France owed New Zealand an apology, US$7 million and three years on Hao for two agents. Both left early.
· 1985At 6:50 p.m. Günter Schabowski read a draft travel rule live and said it took effect 'sofort, unverzüglich.' By 11:30 p.m. Bornholmer Straße was open.
· 1989On June 3, 1992 the High Court of Australia held six to one that Meriam native title to Mer survived annexation; terra nullius had no place in its law.
· 1992Rakhmonov and Nuri signed the General Agreement on Peace and National Accord in Moscow on June 27, 1997. A UN commission and UNMOT then oversaw its terms.
· 1997On December 11, 2019, Bougainville counted 176,928 votes for independence against 3,043 for autonomy, pending ratification by Papua New Guinea.
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