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** Islands: Hoy, Pentland Skerries, Swona, South Ronaldsay, South Walls ( all generally considered to be part of Orkney ); Stroma
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** Tōkai Kisen operates Seven Island, running between Tokyo and Izu Islands, via Tateyama or Yokosuka.
** Kyūshū Shōsen operates the route between Nagasaki and the two of Gotō Islands, namely Fukuejima and Nakadōrijima.
** Datus, Rajas, and Sultans of the Philippine Islands, see Sultanate of Sulu and History of the Philippines
** The Islands, an unrecognized sub-region includes all of the whisky-producing islands ( but excludes Islay ): Arran, Jura, Mull, Orkney and Skye — with their respective distilleries: Arran, Isle of Jura, Tobermory, Highland Park and Scapa, and Talisker.
** Emancipation Day in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Jamaica – celebration of the end of slavery in these former and continuing British colonies in the Caribbean.
** The Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia become independent, after the termination of their trusteeship.
** James Alexander George Smith " Jags " McCartney the Turks and Caicos Islands ’ first Chief Minister, is killed in a plane crash over New Jersey.
** The U. S. Senate accepts the British-German treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands.
** The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands.
** The Faroe Islands are occupied by British troops, following the taking over of Denmark by Nazi Germany.
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** Captain Ernest Hoy makes the first aircraft crossing of the Rocky Mountains, from Vancouver to Calgary.
** and Pentland
** Pentland Rising, or Battle of Rullion Green, a key conflict in the development of Scottish Presbyterianism
** and South
** Atlas Oryx, a medium-sized utility helicopter manufactured by the Atlas Aircraft Corporation of South Africa
** Southern Austro-Bavarian ( in Tyrol, South Tyrol, Carinthia, Styria, and the southern parts of Salzburg and Burgenland ).
** Africa: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
** international: country code-56 ; submarine cables provide links to the US and to Central and South America ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) ( 2007 )
** Electoral district of Canterbury, an electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
** Hangeul or han-geul in the Revised Romanization of Korean, which the South Korean government uses in all English publications and encourages for all purposes.
** WITA is observed in islands of Sulawesi, Bali, provinces of East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara, East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan
** EUMM Georgia, from 2008 ( Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia ) – 21 out of 320 soldiers from 26 countries
** from 1 October 1922 Walvisbaai's administration ( still merely having a Magistrate until its 16 March 1931 Municipal status, thence a Mayor ) was also assigned to South West Africa Mandate
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