A look back through the Famagusta Gazette archives, focusing on events from this day in history in the Mediterranean region.
1977: The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard, which dumps 3 metres (10 ft) of snow in one day in Upstate New York. Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected. Daily peak [Read More]
1967: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other [Read More]
1974: Turkish Airlines Flight 301 crashes during takeoff from Izmir Cumaovası Airport, killing 66 of the 73 people on board the Fokker F28 Fellowship. The aircraft spent the night prior to the accident outside in [Read More]
1971: Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda’s president. During his years in power, Amin shifted from being a pro-Western ruler enjoying considerable support from Israel to being backed by Libya’s [Read More]
1960: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the “barricades week”, during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police. After major demonstrations in Algiers and several other [Read More]
2018: A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, killed at least 33 people and wounds “dozens” of others. The victims included both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials.
2016: Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard. The assassination took place after a [Read More]
In December 1973, a Palestinian terrorist group executed a series of attacks originating at Rome-Fiumicino Airport in Italy which resulted in the deaths of 34 people. The attacks began with an airport-terminal invasion and hostage-taking, [Read More]
1961: Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed [Read More]
Roald Amundsen’s team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole. He left Norway in June 1910 on the ship Fram and reached Antarctica [Read More]
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