Sept. 23, Chile’s great writer Nobel-laureate Pablo Neruda passes away

1817- Spain and Italy sign a treaty on abolition of slave trade .

1846 – Discovery of the planet of Neptune at the Berlin Observatory .

1856 – Work starts at the first railway line in Egypt between Cairo and Alexandria.

1928 – Yugoslavia withdraws from Warsaw Pact.

1991 – Armenia declares separation from the Soviet Union.

2011- President of the Palestinian National Authorities Mahmoud Abbas submits Palestine’s application for full membership of the UN .

480 B.C. – Greek playwright and poet Euripides was born.

1939 – Austrian  neurologist Sigmund Freud passes away.

1973 – Chile’s great writer Nobel-laureate Pablo Neruda passes away.

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