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1. Algeria and Egypt Crack Down on Islamic Militants
2. Arab Members of OPEC Institute an Oil Embargo
3. Arab Oil Embargo Precipitates Energy Crisis
4. Arab Oil Producers Curtail Oil Shipments to Industrial States
5. Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Scrolls
6. Armenian Genocide
7. Armenians Suffer Genocide During World War I
8. Avicenna Writes His Canon of Medicine
9. Balkan Wars
10. Battle of Aboukir Bay
11. Battle of Acre
12. Battle of El Alamein
13. Battle of Golan Heights
14. Battle of Hattin
15. Battle of Manzikert
16. Canaanites Inhabit the Levant
17. Carter Discovers the Tomb of Tutankhamen
18. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Is Destroyed
19. Cities and Civic Institutions Are Invented in Mesopotamia
20. Coalition Defeats Iraq in Gulf War
21. The Crimean War
22. Early Dynastic Period Flourishes in Southern Mesopotamia
23. Egypt and Syria Join to Form United Arab Republic
24. Egypt Attempts to Nationalize the Suez Canal
25. Egyptian Government Troops Attack Islamists
26. Egypt’s Aswan High Dam Is Dedicated
27. Egypt’s President Sadat Is Assassinated
28. Eichmann Is Tried for War Crimes
29. Elamite Empire Rises in Near East
30. Explosion Tears Hole in U.S. Destroyer Cole, Killing Seventeen
31. Failure of the Seventh Crusade
32. Fall of Acre
33. The Fifth Crusade
34. Founding and Flourishing of the Achaemenian Dynasty
35. Frederick II Leads the Sixth Crusade
36. The French Expedition at Susa Discovers the Hammurabi Code
37. French Revolutionary Wars
38. Fungicide-Tainted Grain Poisons Thousands of Iraqis
39. Halafian Culture Flourishes in Northern Mesopotamia
40. Hostages Are Freed from Confinement in Lebanon
41. Iran Announces Nationalization of Foreign Oil Interests
42. Iran Bars Non-Muslims from Cabinet Positions
43. Iran Calls for Murder of Writer Salman Rushdie
44. Iran Uses Executions to Establish New Order
45. Iran-Iraq Conflict Escalates into War
46. Iran-Iraq War Escalates
47. Iranian Revolutionaries Hold Americans Hostage
48. Iraq Burns Kuwaiti Oil Wells
49. Iraq Invades and Ravages Kuwait
50. Iraq Is Warned to Avoid “No Fly” Zone

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