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The Balfour Declaration was a single paragraph in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. It read:
President William McKinley assassinated by Michigan-born, Russian-Polish anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, in Buffalo, New York. Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman assasinates Helsinki Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov.n an attempt to reconstitute Palestine as the national home for Jewish people, the British government drafts a formal statement known as the Balfour Declaration. Great Britain takes Jerusalem from Turk rule and the Temple Mount is open to Europeans for the first time in history.