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The history of Egypt under Hosni Mubarak spans a period of 29 years, beginning with the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat and lasting until the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, when Mubarak was overthrown in a popular uprising as part of the broader Arab Spring movement.
Disasters and accidents Four people are killed and around 40 injured after a passenger plane explodes in Surgut in eastern Russia. (RIA Novosti) (AP) Two people are killed after a hot air balloon crashes onto a bowling green in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, United Kingdom. (BBC) Over a thousand dead blackbirds and other fowl fall out of the sky in Arkansas after a violent tornado outbreak and ...
A protester holding an Egyptian flag during the protests that started on 25 January 2011. Cairo's Tahrir Square was the focal point of the 2011 Egyptian revolution against former president Hosni Mubarak. [149] More than 50,000 protesters first occupied the square on 25 January, during which the area's wireless services were reported to be ...
[11] [12] January 24 – 37 people are killed and more than 180 others wounded in a bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia. [13] [14] [15] January 25 – The 2011 Egyptian revolution begins. January 27 – Within Ursa Minor, H1504+65, a white dwarf with the hottest known surface temperature in the universe at 200,000 K ...
According to the Australian 2011 Census, 36,532 Australian citizens and permanent residents declared that they were born in Egypt, [2] while based on the 2006 Census, at least an additional 31,786 declared that they were of full or partial Egyptian ancestry and born in a country other than Egypt (including most numerously Australian-born ...
This was the deadliest act of violence against Egypt's Christian minority in a decade, since the Kosheh massacre in 2000 left 21 Copts dead. [3] January 25 – The start of the 2011 Egyptian revolution: An ongoing series of street demonstrations, riots, and violent clashes began on this day, selected to coincide with the National Police Day ...
1995 – 51 people are killed in a plane crash in María La Baja, Colombia. [26] 1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour. [27] 1998 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. [28]
The 135 modern Egyptian samples were: 100 from modern Egyptians taken from a study by Pagani et al., and 35 from el-Hayez Western Desert Oasis taken from a study by Kujanova et al. [5] The 35 samples from el-Hayez Western Desert Oasis, whose population is described by the Kujanova et al. study as a mixed, relatively isolated, demographically ...