Yikes, what the crap?
Does anyone remember them now.
Well, may the perpetual light shine upon them and God have mercy on all their souls.
The Balfour Declaration, endorsing the creation of a Jewish nation in the British mandatory Palestine, arrived upon during World War One, was unanimously approved by the Prime Ministers of the British Empire's members at the Imperial Conference.
Notably, it was not put to a plebiscite of the residents of Palestine, thereby treating their interests, more or less in place since the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1157, as irrelevant.
As an historical aside, 1157 is well after 1066, when the Normans conquered England, which historically minded people such as me regard as basically yesterday.
The National Broadcasting System went live at 8:00 p.m Eastern with an inaugural broadcast on its flagship station in New York, WEAF, and to 21 other affiliates.
Washington Luís was inaugurated as the 13th President of Brazil.
While he'd be overthrown, he'd live until 1957.
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