shippingnet.eu/homepage.htm AUG,01.2013 ۩ World Scout Scarf Day; National Day (Benin, Switzerland); Emancipation Day (Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago); Armed Forces Day (China, Lebanon); Yorkshire, England day; Liberation of Haile Selassie I from slavery; Celebration of the Slavery Abolition (British West Indies); Statehood Day (Colorado) ● 527: Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire ● 1498: Christopher Columbus became the first European to visit what is now Venezuela ● 1800: The Acts of Union 1800 was passed merging the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland ● 1831: A new London Bridge opened ● 1914: Germany declared war on Russia at the opening of World War I ● 1960: Islamabad was declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan ● 1964: The Belgian Congo was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo ● 1974: The UN Security Council authorized the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones ● 1975: CSCE Final Act created the Conference for Security & Co-operation in Europe ● 1996: Mohamed Farrah Aidid, 5th president of Somalia, died ● 2009: Corazon Aquino, 11th president of the Philippines, died
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