Cairo

Events (10)

• 1871

  12/24 — Aida opens in Cairo, Egypt.

• 1922

  4/24 — The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.

• 1943

  11/22 — World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

• 1952

  1/26 — Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.

• 1969

  2/3 — In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.

• 1970

  9/28 — Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser's temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor.

• 1985

  11/23 — Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.

• 1997

  12/22 — Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.

• 2015

  12/4 — A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people.

• 2016

  5/19 — EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while traveling from Paris to Cairo, killing all on board.