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| 06/12/1897 | Anthony Eden (Prime Minster of Great Britain) |
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| 07/06/1946 | George W. Bush (Connecticut-born 43rd President of the United States) |
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| 06/10/2000 | Hafez Assad (President of Syria) |
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| 07/14/1099 | Christian Knights from Europe Capture Jerusalem After a 7-Week of Siege and Begin Massacring the City's Muslim and Jewish Populations |
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| 07/06/1917 | Arab Forces Led by T.E. Lawrence Capture the Port of Aqaba from the Turks |
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| 06/29/1946 | British Authorities Arrest More Than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an Effort to Control Terrorism |
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| 06/23/1956 | 99.95% of Egyptian Voters Elect Gamal Abdel Nasser as the First President of the Republic of Egypt |
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| 06/28/1958 | France Releases 30 Islamic Political Prisoners in Algeria |
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| 07/14/1958 | A Military Coup Overthrows the Iraqi Monarchy |
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| 06/10/1967 | The Six-Day War Ends as Israel and Syria Agree to a United Nations-Mediated Cease-fire |
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| 06/11/1967 | United Nations-brokered Cease Fire Takes Effect Between Israel and Syria |
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| 06/13/1967 | United Nations Security Council Rejects Soviet Demands for a Resolution Condemning Israel's Aggression in the Six-Day War |
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| 06/09/1970 | King Hussein of Jordan Escapes an Assassination Attempt as His Motorcade Drives Near His Summer Palace |
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| 06/25/1970 | The United States Launches New Plan for Peace in the Middle East |
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| 09/17/1970 | Civil War Breaks Out in Jordan |
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| 06/20/1976 | Westerners Are Evacuated from Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 07/04/1976 | Israeli Commandos Rescue Almost All Hostages Held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda |
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| 06/13/1978 | Israeli Troops Complete Their Withdrawal from Southern Lebanon |
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| 06/19/1980 | Three Gunmen Attacked the British Embassy in Baghdad |
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| 09/17/1982 | Lebanese Christians Avenge Assassination of President=elect by Killing More Than 1,000 Palestinian Refugees in Beirut |
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| 09/30/1985 | 39 American Hostages Are Freed in Beirut After Being Held for 17 Days on a Hijacked TWA Jetliner |
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| 07/03/1988 | U.S. Navy Cruiser Vincennes Mistakenly Shoots Down an Iranian Passenger Jet, Killing All 290 Persons Aboard |
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| 07/14/1991 | British Troops Protecting Iraqi Kurds Begin to Pull Out of the Region |
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| 06/26/1993 | U.S. President Bill Clinton Orders Missile Strikes in Baghdad in Retaliation for Iraqi Plot to Assassinate Former President George Bush |
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| 06/15/1994 | Israel and the Vatican Establish Full Diplomatic Relations |
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| 07/01/1994 | PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat Drives from Egypt into Gaza, Returning to Palestinian Land After 27 Years in Exile |
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| 06/25/1996 | A Truck Bomb Kills 19 Americans and Injures Hundreds at a U.S. Military Complex in Saudi Arabia |
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| 06/18/2002 | A Palestinian Detonates a Nail-Studded Bomb in a Jerusalem Bus, Killing 19 Passengers and Himself |
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| 06/28/2004 | The U.S. Hands Sovereignty Back to Iraq in a Baghdad Ceremony |
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| 06/25/2005 | Ultra-Conservative Mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Wins Landslide Victory in Iran's Presidential Poll |
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This guide last edited 07/05/2007
This guide last revised 06/12/2007
This guide created 06/12/2007