On this day: 29 October
ON THIS DAY- On this day in 1956, the Tripartite Aggression on Egypt by Israel, France, and the United Kingdom began with the aim to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser from power. Black Tuesday, or the Wall Street Crash of 1929, also took place on this day, signalling the beginning of The Great Depression. The Convention of Constantinople, which regulated traffic through the Suez Canal and neutralized it was signed in 1888. China’s Communist Party announced the end of its one-child policy on this day in 2015. General Franco’s dictatorship over Spain ended on this day in 1975. In 1938, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who, in 2006 became the first woman to be voted head of state of an African country, was born. This time in 2015, Enterprise covered the news of GB Auto having downed tools at its assembly facility for 20 days because of the FX shortage.