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Transfer Day is a holiday celebrated in the U.S. Virgin Islands on March 31. It marks the transfer of the islands from Denmark to the United States that took place in 1917. The islands were initially held by various European countries, and were under the sole control of Denmark by 1754.
Prior to Transfer Day 1917, the Danish colonial administration used a simple flag modeled on the blue ensign with the flag of Denmark in its canton. The Danish flag is popularly said to have fallen from the sky during a 1219 battle of the Danish king Valdemar II during the Livonian Crusade against the Estonians . [ 3 ]
After the "de facto transfer day" of 1 October 1954, before 16 August 1962 also referred to as "de-jure transfer day". During this transition period, general elections to the representative assembly were held in 1955 and 1959. After the de-jure transfer day, legal integration of French settlements into the Indian Union was complete.
Prior to the transfer of the four remaining territories, Chandernagore (Chandannagar) was returned to India via a referendum in 1949. It was S. Rangasamy Naicker in Karaikal who continued Gandhi’s freedom campaign in Pondicherry and the enclaves. “A significant role was played by V. Subbiah of the Communist Party in demanding independence ...
An existing loan deal can be made permanent at any time outside the transfer window. [42] The day upon which a window closes is known as transfer deadline day, and is usually one of the busiest days of the window, generating a flurry of transfers, often because a number of interdependent transfers are completed resembling a housing chain ...
Of the 178 members voting, an overwhelming majority of 170 members favoured the merger of French Indian territories with the Republic of India. Three days later, an agreement on the de facto transfer of the French territories to India was signed in New Delhi between the two countries. A treaty of cession was signed by the two countries in May 1956.
Transfer (patent), transfer of intellectual property rights; Call transfer, in telephony; Electron transfer, in chemistry; Heat transfer, in thermal engineering; Population transfer, movement of large groups of people; Transfer DNA, the transferred DNA of the tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmid of some species of bacteria such as Agrobacterium tumefaciens
For prehistory, Forster et al. (2004) [4] and Forster and Renfrew (2011) [5] observe that there is a correlation of language shift with intrusive male Y chromosomes but not necessarily with intrusive female mtDNA.