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(From Central News Agency (Taiwan))

Taipei, Dec. 1 (CNA) Today is Sunday, Dec. 1, or the 27th day of the tenth month of the Year of the Horse according to the lunar calendar. Following is a list of important events that have occurred on this date in the past:

1640: Portugal becomes independent again after the Portuguese under the leadership of John IV drive out the Spaniards.

1887: Portugal secures the secession of Macau from China's Ching court.

1918: The Danish parliament passes an act giving independence to Iceland.

1921: With the United States and Britain as mediators, representatives of China and Japan hold negotiations on the issue of the Shantung dispute on the sidelines of a meeting in Washington.

1922: Henry Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Manchu dynasty, and Wan Yung, daughter of Yung Yuan, a former minister in the Ching court, hold their wedding ceremony in Beijing's Forbidden City.

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