On this day in ...

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1946 (65 years ago today),
Syria won independence from France, which had exercised a League of Nations-approved mandate over it since shortly after World War I. Nationalist movements had agitated for independence for most of the interim decades. This day is a public holiday in Syria (flag at left).
(Prior April 17 posts are here, here, here, and here.)
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