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On this day February 9-15, 2020 (week 7)

By Julie Mullins

February 9, 2020 - February 15, 2020 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features North Korea and nuclear weapons, the city of New Delhi, rebuilding Europe after WWII, the Republic of North Macedonia, the brothers Lumiere, Canada’s first ever Olympic gold medal and the Mughal dynasty

February 9, 2005: North Korea admitted for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons, and announced it was suspending participation in disarmament talks

February 10, 1931: The city of New Delhi was inaugurated as the capital of India. It houses all three branches – legislative, executive and judicial – of the Government of India

February 11, 1945: World War II’s “Big Three”, Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt, met at Yalta to map out the future of post-war Europe and agree plans to found the United Nations

February 12, 2019: The Republic of Macedonia formally changed its name to the Republic of North Macedonia, ending a 27-year naming dispute with Greece

February 13, 1895: French brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere patented the Cinematographe, a joint camera and film projector that ushered in the birth of modern cinema

February 14, 2010: Alexandre Bilodeau won Canada’s first ever Olympic gold medal on home soil, in the men’s freestyle skiing moguls at the Vancouver Olympics

February 15, 1483: Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty and Emperor of India from 1526 until his death in 1530, was born in Fergana, in present-day Uzbekistan

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PUBLISHED: 27/01/2020; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Newscom, Getty, Associated Press
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