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馃嚜馃嚞 Sinai Liberation Day in Egypt
Celebrates the final withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the Sinai Peninsula
Date in Egypt
April 25
Instituted1982
Commemorates the withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982.
Marks the complete liberation of Sinai in 1982
How Sinai Liberation Day is observed in Egypt
Historical significance
Marks the end of the Israeli occupation of Sinai during the Yom Kippur War.
Public life in Egypt
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
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