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1️⃣ On this day in 1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty 🗽- a gift from the people of France 💙🤍❤️ to the people of the United States - on Bedloe's (later Liberty) Island in Upper New York Bay. Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France @Etienne, @Sabri_KC and @Lianshen?? I had no idea about that!! 🙄🙄 It can be a Trivia question later!! 😛

Like it has been said already, I think it is a common knowledge in France and we even have many replicas of it everywhere. For instance, there is one close to my city.

Maybe something that is less popular is that it took years to first build before being shipped to the US. In the US, it was also stored more than a year before being assembled.

Thank you very much @Lianshen!! I did not know that at all also the second thing what you wrote!! 🙂 I like writing this forum a lot every day because i learn a lot and I hope others maybe too!! 😛

Today is 29 October and this happened today in the past:

1️⃣ The Republic of Turkey was established on 29 October 1923, largely through the efforts of Kemal Atatürk, who is considered the country's founder and served as its first president. 👑👑🥳

2️⃣ It was announced on 29 October 2015 that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

3️⃣ On this day in 1929 was the collapse of U.S. stock market prices. 💸💸🪙💰 Just five days after nearly 13 million shares of U.S. stock were sold in one day in 1929, an additional 16 million shares were sold this day, called “Black Tuesday”, further fuelling the crisis known as the Great Depression. 😵‍💫😵‍💫

4️⃣ Israel's army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area on this day in 1956. ⚔️ 🙁

5️⃣ Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was executed for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley on this day in 1901. Also on the same day in 1618 British adventurer and writer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed for treason. I looked up online and found this about the last person I mentioned and what happened: https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/walter-raleigh 📝👑🥀

6️⃣ Hurricane Mitch made landfall, hitting northern Honduras; one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, it caused some 11,000 deaths in Central America. This happened on 29 October 1998 and so the hurricane was also called October Monster. 🌎🌪️😢 Here is more about Hurricane Mitch: https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/hurricane-mitch

7️⃣ These people were born on this day: American actress Fanny Brice (1891), old president of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938), American actor Richard Dreyfuss (1947) and old president of Turkey Abdullah Gül (1950). 🍰🎂🎊🎀 @diogenes_cask and @Esma-Nur do you know if people in Turkey liked Abdullah Gül as the president? 🙄🙄

On Wednesday we get family from outside The Netherlands that come to visit us until Sunday evening so I will be offline almost all the time from Wednesday afternoon until Sunday evening. Because we will visit places in The Netherlands and if they want maybe also in Belgium and perhaps in France or Germany. So if anybody wants to write daily updates on those days anybody can of course do that in this forum. Or if not I can of course write again after Sunday!! 🙂 😊😊

Welcome to belgium @Yue I always think that's so bad about the one-child family in China. I once saw a report about that. and many children were kidnapped at the time

I found this about the first topic mentioned above in today's list. It is about the person who created Turkey: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ataturk_kemal.shtml Maybe it is interesting to read about it. 🙂

Thank you very much @Lianshen!! I did not know that at all also the second thing what you wrote!! 🙂 I like writing this forum a lot every day because i learn a lot and I hope others maybe too!! 😛

It's my pleasure, and there is indeed a lot to learn. I also discover new events through your thread 🙂

4️⃣ Israel's army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area on this day in 1956. ⚔️ 🙁

This one is very interesting as it is full of drama and twists. I would not write much about this one here, and I am sure that someone like @diogenes_cask has more accurate iinformations than me. Nevertheless, France, UK and US are all involved in a way or another in this war, which is much more important than we often believe to understand today's world.

Today is 29 October and this happened today in the past:

1️⃣ The Republic of Turkey was established on 29 October 1923, largely through the efforts of Kemal Atatürk, who is considered the country's founder and served as its first president. 👑👑🥳

2️⃣ It was announced on 29 October 2015 that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

3️⃣ On this day in 1929 was the collapse of U.S. stock market prices. 💸💸🪙💰 Just five days after nearly 13 million shares of U.S. stock were sold in one day in 1929, an additional 16 million shares were sold this day, called “Black Tuesday”, further fuelling the crisis known as the Great Depression. 😵‍💫😵‍💫

4️⃣ Israel's army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area on this day in 1956. ⚔️ 🙁

5️⃣ Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was executed for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley on this day in 1901. Also on the same day in 1618 British adventurer and writer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed for treason. I looked up online and found this about the last person I mentioned and what happened: https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/walter-raleigh 📝👑🥀

6️⃣ Hurricane Mitch made landfall, hitting northern Honduras; one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, it caused some 11,000 deaths in Central America. This happened on 29 October 1998 and so the hurricane was also called October Monster. 🌎🌪️😢 Here is more about Hurricane Mitch: https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/hurricane-mitch

7️⃣ These people were born on this day: American actress Fanny Brice (1891), old president of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938), American actor Richard Dreyfuss (1947) and old president of Turkey Abdullah Gül (1950). 🍰🎂🎊🎀 @diogenes_cask and @Esma-Nur do you know if people in Turkey liked Abdullah Gül as the president? 🙄🙄

On Wednesday we get family from outside The Netherlands that come to visit us until Sunday evening so I will be offline almost all the time from Wednesday afternoon until Sunday evening. Because we will visit places in The Netherlands and if they want maybe also in Belgium and perhaps in France or Germany. So if anybody wants to write daily updates on those days anybody can of course do that in this forum. Or if not I can of course write again after Sunday!! 🙂 😊😊

Yeah I knoe Abdullah Gül it is politicy and not much the stuff for me cuz there are ppl saying Abdullah Gül was not good for Turkey and ppl were saying he was good!

Hello everybody @Yue is some day out with family so i will put in here name things what happend the past years on 30 octobre 130 - Emperor Hadrian founded Antinopolis (Egypt), statues of Antinoüs were built in the city and temples were built.[1]
1897 - The 'Delftsche Studenten Bond' is founded in café de Kruif on the Houttuinen in Delft.[1]
1955 - Jommeke, Jef Nys's cartoon character, appears in print for the first time.
1990 - A first group of Belgian paratroopers returns to Belgium after a 24-day humanitarian assignment in Rwanda.
1994 - One hundred Haitian detainees, including police officers from the overthrown military regime, escape from prison in Port-au-Prince.
1994 - One of the most wanted suspects in the Italian bribery scandal, a financier who worked closely with socialist former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, is arrested in Paris after nearly two years on the run.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy leaves a trail of destruction in the Caribbean, the United States and Canada. Dozens of people die and millions of people are left without power.
2014 - The Costa Rican volcano Turrialba erupts for the first time in years. The ash ends up in the capital San José, 50 kilometers away.
2019 - Following the Farmers' Protest, the construction sector demonstrates on the Malieveld against the nitrogen policy and the excessively high PFAS standard.
2023 - An accident at a construction site in the Überseequartier, located in the old port area in Hamburg (Germany) also known as HafenCity, leaves at least 3 fatalities and several construction workers injured. People also go missing, but according to the fire brigade, the search for them is extremely dangerous due to the further risk of collapse.[2]

It's my pleasure, and there is indeed a lot to learn. I also discover new events through your thread 🙂

This one is very interesting as it is full of drama and twists. I would not write much about this one here, and I am sure that someone like @diogenes_cask has more accurate iinformations than me. Nevertheless, France, UK and US are all involved in a way or another in this war, which is much more important than we often believe to understand today's world.

Indeed, Suez Crisis was a major event in history and it has turned all the balance of forces upside down. Israeli forces occupied the Sinai, a sparsely-populated desert region in Egypt, halting their advance only 10 miles from the eastern side of the canal. It was not a remarkable advence at all but Britain has paid the largest political bill for the impacts of "Operation Musketeer". Under intense pressure, particularly from the US, troops were rapidly withdrawn and replaced by a UN force. Its outcome highlighted Britain’s declining status and confirmed it as a ‘second tier’ world power. From then on, US has became the 'first one' in the global stage. Domestically it caused a massive political fallout in Britain and resulted in an economic crisis. Britain saw Suez Crisis as a threat to its economic interests and prestige, US saw it as potential increasement of Soviet influence over Egypt. Soviets saw it as an opportunity to have a political impact in Middle East. As always, politics in Middle East was kind of a Gordian Knot.

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1632 - Creation of the Cronesteinsche Polder foundation.[1]
1744 - A hurricane in Jamaica kills 182 people.
1860 - Execution in Maastricht of Johannes Nathan, the last Dutchman executed in peacetime.[1]
1936 – First attempt to launch a rocket at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[1]
1944 - Establishment of MARVA, the Naval Women's Department.
1952 - Detonation of the very first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll (US era).
1961 - Hurricane Hattie makes landfall near Belize City, destroying the city, Hattieville refugee camp foundation.
1962 - Approval by the Belgian Chamber of Representatives of the draft law on the language border.
1971 – An IRA bomb explodes at the Post Office Tower in London.[1]
1988 - Establishment of American Samoa National Park by the United States Congress.
1994 - Establishment of Joshua Tree National Park by the US Congress.[1]
1998 – Iraq ends authorization for further inspections by United Nations weapons inspectors (Iraq War).
2002 - Earthquake near San Giuliano di Puglia and Campobasso (Italy).
2005 - The obligation to keep cages also applies to private individuals with hobby chickens in sensitive nature reserves (in connection with bird flu).
2005 - The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) publishes an atlas showing changes in lakes in Africa due to climate change: Lake Chad has been massively reduced in size, the shores of Lake Nakura in Kenya have been deforested and the shores of Lake Victoria have become heavily populated during the last decades.
2006 - Police raid the farm of drug trafficker Charles Zwolsman.
2007 - There is an earthquake near the island of Pagan, part of the Mariana Islands.
2015 – Kogalymavia Flight 9268 crashes in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board.

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1570 – A flood ravages the Dutch and Belgian coasts.
Nuclear fusion

1952 – The United States detonates the first hydrogen bomb.
European Union

1993 – The Maastricht Treaty, officially the Treaty on European Union, enters into force.

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Every year on November 1 and 2 there is a big party in Mexico: Día de los Muertos is celebrated. During the 'Day of the Dead' people show their love and respect for deceased relatives. That is certainly not a sad affair, but a colorful and cheerful event. 1918 1918 - A general uprising known as the November Revolution breaks out in Germany, culminating in the deposition of German Emperor Wilhelm II and the formation of a democratic republic. 1930 - Haile Selassie is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia

On 1st November 1954, was the beginning of the Algerian war of Independence
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