British mandate in Palestine
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.
American jurist John G. Roberts, Jr., was sworn in as the 17th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 2005.
Discovery was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking a resumption of NASA‘s space shuttle program, which had been suspended following the Challenger explosion in 1986. 1988.
Julia Gillard, who in 2010 became Australia‘s first female prime minister, was born in Wales. 1961.
Poland demanded the cession of Teschen, a rich region that had been contested and then divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia following World War I. 1938.
The United States occupied Cuba after the rebellion surrounding the reelection of Tomás Estrada Palma. 1906.
King Ferdinand VII of Spain died, and his two-year-old daughter, Isabella II, was proclaimed queen. 1833
Kevin Durant (born September 29, 1988, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American professional basketball player who won the 2013–14 National Basketball Association (NBA) Most Valuable Player (MVP) award and established himself as one of the best players of his generation while only in his early 20s.
