Thursday, December 1, 2022

French and UK tunnellers meet and Ukraine says bye bye

On this day, December 1, 1990 French and British tunnellers met under the sea. The breakthrough in the railway line between London and Paris.

And then the following year, again December 1, this time 1991 Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.

Just 32 years ago and the world was such a different place.

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