Set in motion by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British mandate for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was finally approved by the Council of the League of Nations and came into force this day in 1923.
| 1938: | | The American harness racehorse Greyhound established a trotting record for 1 mile in 1:551/4. |
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| 1938: | | Poland demanded the cession of Teschen, a rich region that had been contested and then divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia following World War I. |
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| 1918: | | | German Chancellor Georg von Hertling tendered his resignation on the day of the Bulgarian armistice and the British attack of the Western Front during World War I. |
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| 1906: | | The United States occupied Cuba after the rebellion surrounding the reelection of Tomás Estrada Palma. |
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| 1833: | | King Ferdinand VII of Spain died, and his two-year-old daughter, Isabella II, was proclaimed queen. |
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| 642: | | Arab General ?Amr ibn al-?─? marched into Alexandria, and the Arab conquest of Egypt, which had begun with an invasion three years earlier, ended in peaceful capitulation. |
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