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Today Holidays
Guinea-Bissau: National Day
South-Africa: Heritage Day
Cambodia: Constitution Day
New-Caledonia: French Treaty Day

Events

1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1664 - The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1789 - The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department, are established.
1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain.
1852 - The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27;km) from Paris to Trappes.
1869 - "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1903 - Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
1928 - Major riot during a whalf strike in Port Adelaide involving up 4,000 waterside workers
1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1946 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong
1947 - Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 - Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.
1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
1968 - 60 Minutes debuts on CBS
1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
1990 - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
1994 - National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.

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2023

1 JanuaryNew Year's Day (novo leto)
2 JanuaryNew Year's Day (novo leto)
8 FebruaryPrešeren Day (Prešernov dan, slovenski kulturni praznik)
9 AprilEaster (velika noč)
10 AprilEaster Monday (Uskršnji ponedjeljak)
10 AprilEaster Monday (velika noč)
27 AprilNational Resistance Day (Dan upora proti okupatorju)
1 MayLabour Day (praznik dela)
2 MayLabour Day (praznik dela)
25 JuneNational Day (Dan državnosti)
15 AugustAssumption of Mary (Marijino vnebovzetje (veliki šmaren))
31 OctoberReformation Day (Dan reformacije)
1 NovemberAll Saints (dan spomina na mrtve)
25 DecemberChristmas (Božič)
26 DecemberIndependence Day (Dan samostojnosti in enotnosti)
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Republic of Slovenia
Republika Slovenija
Republic of Slovenia - FlagRepublic of Slovenia - Coat of arms
Republic of Slovenia - Location
Capital: Ljubljana
Official languages: Slovene
Government: Republic
Currency: Euro (EUR)
Population: 2 039 399
Area: 20 273 km²
Religion: Catholicism
Time Zone:
UTC +1 - winter
UTC +2 - summer
Auto Code: SLO
Internet TLD: .si
Calling code: +386
Corporate Income Tax: 21,00%
Personal Income Tax: 16-41%
Value Added Tax: 8.5/20%
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