On this day in 1990, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declared its sovereignty, leading to Kazakhstan's independence on 16th December of the same year.
This entry is a sad one, however I'd like to include it as reminders like these puts things into perspective...
On 25th October 1955, Sadako Saski died of leukemia.
On 6th August 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 1 mile away from the home of Sadako Sasaki. She was only 2 years old.
Sadako Sasaki developed a cold, with lumps appearing on her face and neck and was eventually diagnosed with leukemia on 18th February 1955. She was hospitlaised 3 days later.
Whilst in hospital, she saw a gift of 1000 paper cranes donated to the hospital from the people of Nagoya, and so she began folding her own cranes. In Japanese folklore, one who folds one thousand cranes is granted a wish.
Sadly, on the morning of 25th October 1955, Sadako Sasaki died. It is said that she folded 1,300 cranes and after her death, Sadako's friends and schoolmates published a collection of letters to raise funds to build a memorial to her and all of the children who had died from the effects of the atomic bomb.
In 1958, a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial also called the Genbaku dome.
At the foot of the statue is a plaque:
This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world.
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