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July 8, 1937
On July 8, 1937, turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad. Antonio Carluccio, Joseph Estrada, Yoshiro Mori would arrive in the same year.
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Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
The Treaty of Saadabad was a non-aggression pact signed by Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan on 8 July 1937, and lasted for five years. The treaty was signed in Tehran's Saadabad Palace and was part of an initiative for greater Middle Eastern-oriental relations spearheaded by King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan. Ratifications were exchanged in Tehran on 25 June 1938, and the treaty became effective on the same day.
Around 1937
The year in brief
1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1937th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1930s decade.
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On July 8, 1937
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1937 Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad. 1937 treaty between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan
The Treaty of Saadabad was a non-aggression pact signed by Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan on 8 July 1937, and lasted for five years. The treaty was signed in Tehran's Saadabad Palace and was part of an initiative for greater Middle Eastern-oriental relations spearheaded by King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan. Ratifications were exchanged in Tehran on 25 June 1938, and the treaty became effective on the same day.
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Other moments from 1937
- April 1 Aden becomes a British crown colony.
- April 1 The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
- April 12 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
- April 26 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.
- April 28 South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.
- April 30 The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
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