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Sinai Liberation Day
Celebrates the final withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the Sinai Peninsula
Celebration date
April 25
Geographic reach
1 country
Commemorates the withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982.
Marks the complete liberation of Sinai in 1982
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On this day in African history
- 1859 Construction of the Suez Canal, 聽connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas, begins.
- 1954 British raid Nairobi, Kenya, arresting 25,000 Mau Mau suspects. 路 Kenya
- 1961 France conducted its fourth nuclear bomb test in the Sahara Desert. 路 Algeria
- 1975 Appointed a tutorial fellow at Makerere University, where he would teach for decades 路 Uganda
- 1986 Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland. 路 Eswatini
- 2001 Police raid Citizen radio and TV and arrest the owner for alleged licence breaches 路 Kenya