Zahir Shah
(b. 1914), king of Afghanistan. Zahir Shah was the king of Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973. Born in Kabul, he received his initial schooling at the Habibia and Istiqlal schools. Later, Zahir ...
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Muhammad Zahir Shah (born 1914), last in the 226-year dynasty of Pashtun monarchs to rule Afghanistan, emerged in the fall of 2001 as a symbol of unity for his country as its hard-line Taliban rulers ...
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Nov 1 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on November 8 since 1900: 1917 - The Council (Soviet) of People's Commissars became
Russia's new government, with Vladimir...
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