1875: Verney Cameron reaches Benguela in Angola from Africa’s east coast, the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea

1917: British government proclaims support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine in the Balfour Declaration

1930: Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, the 225th Emperor of the Ethiopian Solomonic Dynasty

1949: The Netherlands recognizes its former colony Indonesia as a sovereign state at conclusion of the Round Table Conference at the Hague, Netherlands

1966: The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US

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