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Monday, 6 November 2017

On this day: 06 November

ON THIS DAY- On this day in 1956, the allied forces of the Tripartite Aggression took control of the Suez Canal Zone and declared a ceasefire. UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold announced “the allies had accepted the terms of the UN ceasefire and had ordered troops to stop fighting.” The UN condemned South Africa’s apartheid regime and called on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country in 1962. The second phase of the Russian Bolshevik revolution of 1917 began on this day, after the Bolsheviks and Left Socialist Revolutionaries staged a nearly bloodless coup, occupying government buildings, telegraph stations, and other strategic points. In 1999, Australia rejected a proposal to break ties with the British monarchy and become a republic. On 6 November 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States. This time last year we were into our second business day under the new reality that its life under the EGP float.

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