This Day in World History
Slovenia National Day
Following WW1 Slovenia formed a federation with Serbia and Croatia that in 1929 became Yugoslavia. In 1991 Slovenia declared its independent from Yugoslavia on the same day as Croatia - after elections in 1990 showed that 88 percent of the people wished to secede. Yugoslavia immediately took military action, but the resulting Ten-Day War had few casualties, and the Slovenian victory solidified the new nation's independence. In 2008,
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