A look back through the Famagusta Gazette archives, focusing on events from this day in history in the Mediterranean region.
On this day in 1922, the British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. The 1922 discovery in excavations funded by Lord [Read More]
On this day in 1935, George II of Greece regained his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite. As Time described it at the time, “As a voter one could drop into the ballot [Read More]
The Battle of Elaia–Kalamas took place in Epirus on 2–8 November 1940. The battle was fought between the Greeks and the Italians during the initial stage of the Greco-Italian War in World War II. The [Read More]
William Shakespeare’s famous play Othello, set in Cyprus, was performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace in London on this day in 1604. Othello is a tragedy set in the contemporary Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) [Read More]
On this day in 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990 – a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Cairo International Airport crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles (100 km) south of Nantucket [Read More]
On this day in 1956, the United Kingdom and France began bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal. British bombers based in Cyprus and Malta took off to Cairo with the aim [Read More]
On this day in 1967, 66 people were presumed killed when a British European Airways Comet jet airliner plunged into the Mediterranean on a flight from London to Cyprus. Aircraft and ships rushed to the [Read More]
Yet again, the government in Cyprus are looking at possibility of building a railway. The latest idea involves a line co-financed with the European Union. Talks on the idea were floated after a discussion between [Read More]
On this day in 2004, the Palestine Liberation Organization confirmed the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas was elected chairman of the PLO minutes later. Arafat had been Chairman of the Palestine [Read More]
Radio listeners in Britain are being asked to join Scotland Yard’s fight against lorry hijackers. Details of stolen lorries will be broadcast in Radio London’s half-hourly news bulletins so that drivers who are listening-in will [Read More]
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