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🇮🇸 Gleðilegan þjóðhátíðardag, allir Íslendingar og vinir Íslands um allan heim! 🇮🇸
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#17June is the national day of #Iceland A public holiday is held marking independence from #Denmark in 1944. Find out about all the countries on flagsbook youtube. #Flagsbook
#Celebrations ahead for #17June: #Iceland became fully #independent from #Denmark in 1944 and ever since the nation has celebrated on the 17th of June; the birthday of the man who made that push for self-determination, #Jón #Sigurðsson.
OTD in 1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies in childbirth. Her grief-stricken husband, Emperor Shah Jahan built a tomb in her memory.
‘Taj Mahal … took seventeen years to build.’
Words: David Scott Daniell
Artist: Jack Matthew
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
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