Osama bin Laden was born on 10 March 1957 in Riyadh. A Saudi-born militant, bin Laden came from a wealthy family and went to Afghanistan to support the resistance to the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. He founded the organisation al-Qaeda, which in 1998 issued a call for attacks on Americans, and was behind the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that year. Al-Qaeda carried out the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States, which killed nearly three thousand people and led to the American-led war in Afghanistan. After a manhunt of almost ten years, he was killed by US Navy SEALs in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011.
Before and after
- 14 January 1957Death of Humphrey Bogart
- 8 February 1957Founding of Confederation of African Football
- 8 February 1957Death of John von Neumann
- 6 March 1957Ghana becomes independent
- 10 March 1957Birth of Osama bin Laden
- 25 March 1957Treaty of Rome
- 25 March 1957Founding of European Atomic Energy Community
- 22 April 1957Birth of Donald Tusk
- 29 April 1957Birth of Daniel Day-Lewis
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- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
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