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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1926-09-02 |
Italy signs treaty with Yemen |
1948-11-16 |
Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel |
1950-09-24 |
"Operation Magic Carpet" - all Jews from Yemen move to Israel |
1955-04-06 |
Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam |
1958-03-02 |
Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic |
1961-03-27 |
Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen |
1962-09-26 |
Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day) |
1962-09-27 |
Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen |
1965-09-24 |
Saudi Arabian & Egyptian accord over Yemen |
1967-10-27 |
NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen |
1967-11-05 |
Yemen president Sallal flees |
1967-11-29 |
British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen |
1967-11-30 |
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from the UK |
1968-03-15 |
Uprising in South Yemen |
1968-03-20 |
Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) |
1970-12-01 |
Independent People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself as People's Democratic Republic of Yemen |
1970-12-28 |
Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution |
1974-06-19 |
Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends constitution |
1977-12-05 |
Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen |
1978-10-31 |
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution |
1979-02-24 |
War between North & South Yemen begins |
1982-12-13 |
Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die |
1986-01-13 |
South Yemen Pres Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents |
1986-01-24 |
South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president |
1986-02-09 |
Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen |
1989-02-16 |
Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market |
1990-05-22 |
North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen |
1990-08-06 |
UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq |
1994-05-05 |
North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen |
1994-05-21 |
South Yemen secedes from Yemen |
2000-10-12 |
The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39 |
2002-10-06 |
The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen. |
2011-11-23 |
Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity. |
2012-02-21 |
Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi |
2012-02-25 |
Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen |
2012-05-21 |
120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen |
2012-07-11 |
POliciy academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen |
2012-08-04 |
45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen |
2012-08-18 |
Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen |
2013-09-20 |
46 soldiers are killed in army-base attacks in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen |
2013-12-05 |
52 people are killed and 167 are injured in a militant attack on a defense ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen |
2015-10-26 |
Airstrikes hit Doctors Without Borders clinic in Yemen |
2016-01-18 |
Airstrikes kill at least 35 throughout Yemen |
2016-03-13 |
Helicopters kill 17 as Yemen government moves against Aden militants |
2016-03-14 |
Yemen conflict: UAE jet missing on mission against Houthis |
2016-08-16 |
Bombing of Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Yemen Kills at Least 15 |
2016-08-17 |
Airstrike in Yemen Kills 17 Civilians, Witnesses Say |
2016-09-25 |
Yemen plans UN complaint over Iran weapons transfers: minister |
2016-10-09 |
Saudi-Led Airstrikes Blamed for Massacre at Funeral in Yemen |
2016-10-13 |
US military strikes Yemen after missile attacks on US Navy ship |
2017-03-04 |
United States Ramps Up Airstrikes Against Al Qaeda in Yemen |
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1946-08-01 |
Paul Torday, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
1965-04-25 |
Tom Beard, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
1982-04-30 |
Hugues Mace, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1962-09-16 |
Saif al-Islam Achmad, monarch of Yemen, dies at about 71 |
1978-06-25 |
Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered |
1978-06-26 |
Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed |
1994-03-05 |
Abdullah Al-Sallal, pres of Yemen (1962-67), dies |
1996-08-06 |
Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962), dies |
2013-12-18 |
Paul Torday, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
2015-07-20 |
Tom Beard, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
