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Selected anniversaries for the "On this day" section of the Main Page

October 1: Unification Day in Cameroon (1961); National Day in China (1949); Independence Day in Tuvalu (1978); Defenders Day in Ukraine (2015)

Yosemite Valley

959 – Edgar acceded to the English throne upon the death of his brother Eadwig.
1386 – The Wonderful Parliament met at Westminster Abbey to address King Richard II's need for money, but soon changed focus to the reform of his administration.
1890 – At the encouragement of preservationist John Muir and writer Robert Underwood Johnson, the U.S. Congress established Yosemite National Park (pictured) in California.
1918 – First World War: British and Arab troops captured Damascus from the Ottoman Empire.
2003 – A levy was imposed on the hiring of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong, who numbered in the hundreds of thousands at the time.

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