Yasser Arafat was born on 4 August 1929 in Cairo. A Palestinian political leader, Arafat co-founded the Fatah movement in the late 1950s and became chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1969. Under his leadership the PLO carried out armed attacks against Israel while also seeking international recognition for the Palestinian cause, and he addressed the United Nations General Assembly in 1974. In 1993, after secret talks, he signed the Oslo Accords with Israel and shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. In 1996 he was elected president of the Palestinian Authority. After the collapse of peace talks and the outbreak of the Second Intifada he was confined to his compound in Ramallah. He died in Paris in 2004, and the cause of his death remains disputed.
Before and after
- 12 June 1929Birth of Anne Frank
- 18 June 1929Birth of Jürgen Habermas
- 2 July 1929Birth of Imelda Marcos
- 28 July 1929Birth of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- 4 August 1929Birth of Yasser Arafat
- 28 September 1929Construction of St. Vitus Cathedral
- from 3 October 1929 to 29 November 1945Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- 21 October 1929Birth of Ursula K. Le Guin
- from 24 October 1929 to 29 October 1929Wall Street crash of 1929
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