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1906 – Britain launches biggest and fastest battleship HMS dreadnought.
1931 – New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1943 – Mahatma Gandhi began a 21-day fast protesting against his imprisonment.
1943 – Algerian Leader Ferhat Abbas issues Algerian People’s Manifest which has become a reference of the Algerian Liberation Movement and leads to Independence of Algeria.
1947 – Ras al-Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates.
1982 – Foundation of Palestinian Communist Party in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and diaspora, to become later The Palestinian People’s Party.
Passed away:
1918- Italian journalist and peace-activist and Nobel-Laureate Ernesto Teodoro Moneta.
1992 – Lebanese actor, singer and radio host Hikmet Wehbe.
2005 – American Playwright Arthur Miller.
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