1903 –Islamic Museum opened in Cairo.
1908 – A powerful earthquake struck south Italy, devastating the Sicilian city of Messina, death toll estimated at 75,000.
1947 – A Jewish gang attacks al-Fatawi Café in the old city of Jerusalem , killing and injuring 17 Palestinians.
1948- Assassination of former Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy.
1968 – Israel launches an aggression on Beirut International Airport and destroyed 13 civil aircraft belonging to the Lebanese carriers.
1999- Election of Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov as Turkmenistan President for life.
2007 – Interim Parliament passed a bill and declared Nepal to become a Federal Democratic Republic.
Occasions:
Massacre of the Innocents
H. Zain/ Barry