On this day, in 2016 the UK voted to leave the European Union.
Just over half of the electorate voted for “Brexit”, Britain’s exit from the EU. The UK had been part of the union since 1973.Brexit was expected to take place on March 29th of this year. So far it did not materialise.
Since the referendum took place, the UK entered in one of its most disruptive political chapters in tis history.
In other anniversaries
In 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the typewriter with a QWERTY keyboard
In 1974 1st extra-terrestrial message sent from Earth into space
In1989, Tim Burton’s noir spin on the well-known story of the DC Comics hero Batman is released in theatres.
In 1992 Yitzhak Rabin’s Labour Party wins the election in Israel- Rabin became the country’s fifth Prime Minister. For his engagement in a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 (together with Shimon Peres and Yasir Arafat). A year later, Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist.
In 2018 a children Thai soccer team becomes trapped in a cave. Their rescue kept the world watching as the worst outcome was feared.
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