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Historical Events
Events 1 - 47 of 47
1926-09-02 - Italy signs treaty with Yemen
1948-11-16 - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1950-08-24 - Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews
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 about Yemen
1965-12-25 - The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz
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 - Democratic People's republic of Yemen gains independence
1967-11-30 - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from UK
1967-11-30 - People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain
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 becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen
1970-12-28 - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
1971-12-01 - People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
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
1990-09-22 - Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys
1994-05-05 - North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen
1994-05-21 - South Yemen secedes from Yemen
1994-07-07 - North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
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.
2009-06-30 - Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor
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
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 7 of 7
0732-10-11 - Abd ar-Rahman, Yemenite general strategist (Bordeaux occupier), dies
1955-04-16 - Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded
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
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