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2012 Event - At the National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the U.S. Democratic Party vote three separate times in order to approve putting the terms, 'God', 'Jerusalem', and 'Israel' back into the platform

2011 Event - The Israeli interior ministry grants its final approval for building 1,600 settler homes in the disputed East Jerusalem

2010 Event - Plans to build 625 more homes in close to the West Bank, adjacent to Arab East Jerusalem, were announced

2010 Event - Iran calls upon Muslims around the world to act in protest in response to Israel's plans to build in East Jerusalem

2010 Event - In Washington, D.C, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells a lobby group that 'Jerusalem is not a settlement' and Israel has a 'right' to build there

1997 Event - Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14

1995 Death - Shlomo Averbach, Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend

1993 Event - Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem

1992 Event - Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem, Israel

1992 Death - Nahman Avigad, Isr archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem), dies at 86

1989 Death - Able J Herzberg, Russian/Netherlands lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies

1988 Event - "Nightline" goes on location to Jerusalem Israel

1988 Event - John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem

1987 Event - Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns

1983 Event - A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis

1980 Event - Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv

1978 Death - Golda Meir, Israel's Prime Minister 1969 - 1974, dies in Jerusalem at 80

1974 Death - Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/president Com Palestine, dies

1969 Event - Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem

1967 Event - Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem

1967 Event - Israel annexes East Jerusalem

1967 Event - Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem

1964 Event - Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem

1961 Event - Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann

1961 Event - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem

1959 Death - Gershon Agron, mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66

1958 Event - 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens

1953 Birthday - Alpha Blondy, Seydou Kone, Ivory coast, reggae singer, Jerusalem

1951 Death - Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan's King (1946-51), killed in Jerusalem

1950 Event - Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel

1949 Event - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem

1949 Event - 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)

1949 Event - Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem

1948 Event - Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem

1948 Event - 1st air bombing of Jerusalem

1948 Event - Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel

1948 Event - Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem

1948 Event - Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed

1948 Event - Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die

1948 Event - Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed

1939 Birthday - Amos Oz, Jerusalem Israel, author, My Michael

1937 Birthday - Paul Bailey, born in England, novelist, George Orewell prize-winner, lecturer at North Dakota State University, writer in residence, Kingston University, wrote At The Jerusalem, radio and television plays, and non-fiction books

1932 Birthday - Jerome Lowenthal, Philadelphia, pianist and professor, Jerusalem Academy of Music

1932 Event - 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem

1929 Event - Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem

1927 Birthday - Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music

1925 Event - Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid

1925 Event - Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated

1920 Birthday - Nehemiah Persoff, Jerusalem Palestine, actor, Al Capone, Yentl

1920 Event - Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem

1918 Death - C Hubert H Parry, English musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70

1917 Event - British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem

1917 Birthday - Emanuel Vardi, born in Jerusalem, Israel, violist, SD Symph 1978-82

1910 Event - Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem

1906 Event - Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem

1905 Birthday - Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist, Discovering Jerusalem

1898 Event - Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem

1881 Event - Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem

1878 Birthday - Felix M Abel, French bible scholar, Jerusalem Nouvelle

1876 Birthday - Max Jacob, French writer, Concentration Camp, Le Siege de Jerusalem

1848 Birthday - Charles Hubert H Parry, England, musicologist/composer, Jerusalem

1836 Event - Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem

1799 Event - Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews

1799 Event - Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem for Jews

1770 Event - General Church of New Jerusalem established

1700 Event - Rabbi Judah Hasid and Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem

1665 Event - Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah

1626 Event - Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh tyrannical Governor of Jerusalem, driven out

1625 Event - 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem

1554 Event - Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem

1521 Event - Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine

1267 Event - Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem

1244 Event - Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem

1237 Death - Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies

1229 Event - German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem

1205 Death - Amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies

1192 Event - Richard Coeur de Leeuw leaves Jerusalem in disguise

1187 Event - Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders

1187 Event - Saladins army marches into Jerusalem

1174 Death - Amalrik I, Morri, French King of Jerusalem, dies

1165 Event - Rambam reaches Jerusalem

1131 Death - Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies

1129 Event - Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II

1118 Death - Boudouin I, of Bologne/Edessa, 1st crusader/king of Jerusalem, dies

1111 Death - Robrecht II of Jerusalem, Count of Flanders (1st Crusader), dies

1100 Event - Boudouin I of Boulogne crowned king of Jerusalem

1099 Event - Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue and set it afire

1099 Event - 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Jerusalem

1099 Event - 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem

1065 Event - Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem

638 Death - Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies

335 Event - Church of Heilig Grave initiated in Jerusalem

70 Event - Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Romans

70 Event - Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem

70 Event - Titus sets up batterig rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem

70 Event - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem

70 Event - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem

65 Event - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem

39 Birthday - Titus, 10th Roman emperor, 79-81, conqueror of Jerusalem













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