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The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.Drafted by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 (II).
In 2023, the Archive started to observe June 3 as the Partition Remembrance Day because it was on this day in 1947 that the viceroy declared the Mountbatten Plan to divide India. [3] It also announced to launch a book with 4000 oral testimonies and 1000 photographs illustrating the voices of the partition survivors spread across various ...
The meaning of the map colors is as follows (a legend caption is available in template form here): Blue = area assigned to a Jewish state in the original UN partition plan, and within the 1949 Israel armistice lines. Green = area assigned to an Arab state in the original UN partition plan, and controlled by Egypt or Jordan from 1949-1967.
"Result of Parliamentary General Election 1947" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. "1947 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. "Table 31 Parliament Election (1947)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. Rajasingham, K. T. (20 ...
A list of maps of Sri Lanka in chronological order is shown below. Maps. Sortable table Date Carto-grapher Description Image 1st century CE 1482 1595
1947 Partition of India Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan on 26 March 1971. Qatar: British Qatari Protectorate 3 September: 1971 Seychelles: 29 June: 1976 Singapore: 3 June: 1959 Became self-governing on 3 June 1959 and gained independence from Malaysia on 9 August 1965. Sri Lanka: Ceylon 4 February: 1948
The 1st Parliament of Ceylon was a meeting of the Parliament of Ceylon, with the membership determined by the results of the 1947 parliamentary election between 23 August and 20 September 1947. The parliament met for the first time on 14 October 1947 and was dissolved on 8 April 1952.
After the failure of the UN's 1947 partition plan and the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, Israel declared its independence on 14 May 1948. The armies of neighboring Arab states invaded the area of the former Mandate the next day, beginning the First Arab–Israeli War .