1921 – Canadian scientists successfully isolate insulin for the first time.
1954 – Initializing the agreement on Britain withdrawal from Egypt.
1957 –The monarchy was abolished, and Bourguiba was elected president of Tunisia.
2010 – Bulldozers of Israeli forces raze the Palestinian al-Araqib village.
Born Today:
1835 – Italian poet and Nobel-Laureate Giosuè Carducci.
Passed away:
1841 – Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov.
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