May 17, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser asks the UN Emergency Forces, stationed in Sinai to withdraw from it

1805 – Muhammad Ali Pasha rules Egypt.

1967 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser asks the UN Emergency Forces, stationed in Sinai to withdraw from it.

1974 – India conducts first nuclear test known as Pokhran-I or “Smiling Buddha”
1995 -Jacques Chirac presides France.

2007 – A train crosses the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas for first time since 1953.

Born Today:

1897 – Norwegian physical chemist and Nobel-Laureate Odd Hassel.

Passed away:
1510 -Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Occasions:

World Telecommunications Day.

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