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Tuesday, 7 November 2017

On this day: 07 November

ON THIS DAY- On this day in 2000, the US presidential election ended in a statistical tie between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush, only to be settled on December 12 by the US Supreme Court after a bitter legal dispute. In 1987, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali installed himself as Tunisia’s president in a bloodless coup, replacing Habib Bourguiba. Two years later, East Germany’s Communist-dominated government resigned following mass protests. On this day in 1913, French existentialist philosopher and author Albert Camus was born. Besides writing some of the 20th century’s most influential works of fiction, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1957. Scientist and two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie was born on this day in 1867. Jeannette Rankin became the first American woman to hold national office in the US after winning a seat in the US House of Representatives in 1916. This time last year, the exchange rate hit EGP 16.32 per USD 1 on the first day of the new interbank market regime and the government said it was going to ask the IMF’s board to approve disbursing the USD 12 bn financial package.

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