Person report

★09 Dec 1917
First World War: Hussein al-Husayni, the Ottoman mayor of Jerusalem, surrendered the city to the British.

★03 Jan 1919
Emir Faisal of Iraq signed an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.

★23 Dec 1919
The Sex Disqualification Act 1919 was enacted, lifting most of the existing common-law restrictions on women in the United Kingdom.

★05 Nov 1925
Sidney Reilly, a "super-spy" who was one of the inspirations for James Bond, was executed by the Soviet secret police.

★20 May 1927
By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognized the sovereignty of King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia over Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become Saudi Arabia.

★20 Feb 1931
Paraguayan anarchists briefly seized the city of Encarnación as part of a larger plan to initiate a social revolution in the country.

★14 Aug 1941
After a secret meeting in Newfoundland, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post-World War II world despite the fact that the United States had yet to enter the war.

★25 Dec 1941
Second World War: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when Mark Aitchison Young, the Governor of Hong Kong, surrendered the territory to Japan after 18 days of fierce fighting.

★11 Aug 1945
Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles engaged in a pogrom, which resulted in one dead and five wounded victims.

★15 Aug 1947
Jawaharlal Nehru took office as the Prime Minister of India, a post he held for 18 years.

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