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| 1931 |
| | | The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth | |
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| 1940 May 27 |
| | | The Belgians surrender to the German armies encircling them north and south | |
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| 1940 June 14 |
| | | June 14 - a German army takes Paris and pushes on further south into the Rhone valley | |
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| 1943 September |
| | | A strong Allied force lands at Salerno, south of Naples | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The Festival of Britain, on the south bank of the Thames in London, celebrates the end of wartime austerity | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The General Assembly of the UN asks Argentina and Britain to enter negotiations on their long-running dispute over the Falklands | |
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| 1979 |
| | | A conference in London, at Lancaster House, finally achieves agreement on Southern Rhodesia | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children uses the moment of India's independence to launch an adventure in magic realism | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold to Barcelona for a new record fee of about £3 million, almost double the highest previous figure | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Vikram Seth publishes his novel A Suitable Boy, a family saga in post-independence India | |
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