Anwar Sadat was born on 25 December 1918 in Mit Abu al-Kum. An Egyptian army officer and statesman, Sadat took part in the revolution of 1952 alongside Gamal Abdel Nasser and succeeded him as president. He launched the surprise attack on Israeli forces in 1973 and then made a historic visit to Jerusalem in 1977, which led to the Camp David Accords and a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. The agreement isolated Egypt in much of the Arab world and angered Islamist militants, and he was assassinated by members of his own army during a military parade in Cairo.
Before and after
- from 5 December 1918 to 11 August 1920Latvian War of Independence
- 11 December 1918Birth of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 21 December 1918Birth of Kurt Waldheim
- 23 December 1918Birth of Helmut Schmidt
- 25 December 1918Birth of Anwar Sadat
- from 31 December 1918 to 5 January 1919Battles for Vilnius
- 1919Founding of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- 1919Founding of Leeds United F.C.
- from 1919 to 1933Founding of Bauhaus
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- 16 May 1916Sykes–Picot Agreement
- from February 1919 to March 1921Polish–Soviet War
- 24 July 1923Treaty of Lausanne
- from 7 December 1941 to 2 September 1945Pacific War
- from 6 June 1944 to 29 August 1944Normandy landings
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