Cairo - Notable Historical Events
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Cairo - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1517-01-22 |
Turks conquer Cairo |
1517-04-13 |
Osmaanse army occupies Cairo |
1800-03-20 |
French army defeats Turks at Helipolis & advance to Cairo |
1811-03-01 |
French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel |
1824-03-21 |
Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses |
1862-12-12 |
Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed) |
1871-12-24 |
Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at the opening of the Suez canal |
1879-06-30 |
Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods |
1879-08-23 |
Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo |
1882-09-14 |
British General Wolseley reaches Cairo |
1882-09-15 |
British general Wolseley occupies Cairo |
1905-04-02 |
Cairo-Capetown railway opens |
1914-12-23 |
World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt. |
1942-08-04 |
British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo |
1942-08-12 |
Lt General Bernard Montgomery arrives in Cairo |
1942-08-16 |
British Premier Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow |
1942-08-23 |
British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo |
1943-12-04 |
-Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill & Turkish pres Inonu |
1943-12-07 |
Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US |
1945-02-22 |
Arab League forms (Cairo) |
1945-03-22 |
Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt |
1948-02-29 |
Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died |
1948-06-20 |
20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo |
1948-07-14 |
Israel bombs Cairo |
1958-09-20 |
Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo) |
1961-06-12 |
Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20 |
1962-06-26 |
Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill |
1965-05-20 |
Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121 |
1965-11-01 |
Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt) |
1967-05-30 |
King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo |
1967-07-17 |
Race riots in Cairo Illinois |
1969-06-19 |
State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances |
1972-04-02 |
Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo |
1973-10-24 |
Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus |
1974-02-17 |
49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt |
1977-12-14 |
Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference |
1978-09-16 |
Grateful Dead perform in Cairo Egypt |
1979-04-02 |
Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets pres Sadat |
1981-06-17 |
Battle between Moslems & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed |
1981-10-10 |
Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo |
1990-02-04 |
10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo |
1992-10-12 |
5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die) |
1999-10-31 |
EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board. |
2001-12-28 |
OPEC oil ministers meeting in Cairo agree to reduce their crude oil output quotas by a combined 1.5 million barrels per day |
2011-01-25 |
Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt. |
2013-07-02 |
16 people are killed and 200 are injured in protest clashes at Cairo University against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi |
2013-07-08 |
42 people have been killed and hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a sit in protest in Cairo |
2013-07-27 |
100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt |
2013-11-18 |
20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt |
2016-05-19 |
EgyptAir says flight from Paris to Cairo missing with 66 on board |
2017-10-17 |
Egypt says Ramses II temple unearthed southwest of Cairo |
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Cairo - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1029-07-02 |
Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094) |
1874-08-14 |
Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Cairo Egypt, Egyptian lawyer, journalist, and nationalist activist |
1910-04-08 |
Kenneth Anspach, Five Graves to Cairo |
1913-02-11 |
Leonard Mosley, Foxhole in Cairo |
1914-02-15 |
Milton Seaman, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1914-08-25 |
Maurice Brenner, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1917-05-15 |
Wade Barnes, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1919-05-14 |
María del Carmen Merino, Bound for Cairo |
1920-02-11 |
Farouk I, Cairo, last King of Egypt (1936-52) |
1920-07-03 |
Farid Shawqi, Cairo Station |
1921-02-06 |
Jean Shevlin, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1927-10-10 |
Victoria Zussin, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1928-10-22 |
Elaine Grollman, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1929-04-18 |
Walt Levinsky, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1929-11-11 |
Hend Rostom, Cairo Station |
1933-01-17 |
Dalida, Cairo, actress/singer, Miss Egypt (The 6th Day) |
1933-01-17 |
Yolande Christina Dalida, Cairo Egypt |
1933-08-05 |
Safia Sarwat, Cairo Station |
1936-12-29 |
Tom Kubiak, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1940-07-26 |
Peter Castellotti, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1943-12-24 |
Claude Brosset, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies |
1944-03-14 |
Wolfgang Beigel, Cargo from Cairo |
1945-02-09 |
Mia [Maria] Farrow, LA, actr (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo) |
1945-10-13 |
Karen Akers, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1946-06-05 |
Gillian Hills, Cairo Egypt, actress (Blow-up, Clockwork Orange) |
1948-01-20 |
Prudence Farrow, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1949-06-03 |
Stephanie Farrow, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1949-9-15 |
Annie Joe Edwards, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1958-02-19 |
Tommy Cairo, ECW Hardcore Heaven 1994 |
1958-10-14 |
Thomas Dolby, Cairo Egypt, rock vocalist (She Blinded Me With Science) |
1960-07-19 |
Atom Egoyan, Cairo Egypt, director (Adjuster, Next of Kin) |
1961-11-20 |
Jean-François Halin, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies |
1963-05-03 |
Roberto Cairo, Fugitives |
1964-07-19 |
Teresa Edwards, Cairo GA, basketball forward (Oly-gold-1984, 88,92,96) |
1970-04-28 |
Cairo Amen II, Mr. Doula |
1971-04-17 |
Ahmed Atef, Demons of Cairo |
1972-12-06 |
Ruba Nadda, Cairo Time |
1972-9-07 |
Michael R. Cairo, Batman Begins |
1973-01-17 |
François Damiens, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies |
1974-05-04 |
Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player |
1974-05-04 |
Miguel Cairo, Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Cincinnati Reds |
1974-9-03 |
Virginie Blaisonneau, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies |
1978-07-19 |
Nicolas Bouvet, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies |
1978-11-30 |
Flávia Cairo Cavalcante, Casa dos Artistas |
1985-01-15 |
Mona Hala, Cairo Time |
Cairo - Notable Deaths
Cairo - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1094-01-10 |
Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029) |
1169-03-23 |
Shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies |
1204-12-13 |
Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 |
1957-05-01 |
Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82 |
1971-11-28 |
Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo |
1980-07-27 |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60 |
1985-05-11 |
Milton Seaman, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1988-06-15 |
Victoria Zussin, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1990-07-31 |
Jean Shevlin, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1997-07-22 |
Kenneth Anspach, Five Graves to Cairo |
1998-07-27 |
Farid Shawqi, Cairo Station |
1999-02-25 |
Wade Barnes, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1999-12-14 |
Walt Levinsky, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
2005-08-25 |
Maurice Brenner, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
2005-11-17 |
Elaine Grollman, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
2007-06-25 |
Claude Brosset, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies |
2009-09-04 |
Safia Sarwat, Cairo Station |
2011-08-08 |
Hend Rostom, Cairo Station |
2014-08-28 |
Roberto Cairo, Fugitives |
