On This Day in History
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1460 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces of King Henry VI. |
1906 The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, later laid down the foundations of Pakistan. |
 | Signature page of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR |
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1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, organized as a union (U) of Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR). |
1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society. |
1950 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states within the French Union. |
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Winston Churchill made an emotional speech to the Canadian Parliament on this day, December 30, 1941. His photograph from that day is just as memorable. |
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