May 14, Paraguay’s Independence Day

 

1590- Construction Works of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican end of a total height of 133.5 meters.

1955- Warsaw Pact announced.

2004 – US forces releases 250 Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq due to abuse scandal.

2010 – Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania sign initials On a cooperative framework agreement for sharing of waters of the Nile while Egypt and Sudan rejected it.

Passed away:

1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian politician and Nobel-laureate.

Occasions:

Paraguay’s Independence Day.

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