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1991 Death - Robert-Jan Akkerman, Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered

1990 Event - PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis

1985 Event - Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed

1984 Event - Riot in Tunis kills over 100

1974 Death - Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77

1969 Death - Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal, dies at 78

1943 Event - French, British and U.S. victory parade in Tunis Tunisia

1943 Event - British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia

1943 Event - British 1st army opens assault on Tunis

1943 Event - British and U.S. offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta

1943 Event - General Alexander, Eisenhower, Anderson and Bradley discuss assault on Tunis

1939 Birthday - Claudia Cardinale, born in Tunis, actress, Blindfold, 8, Pink Panther

1891 Birthday - Harold RLG, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Governor-General of Canada, 1945 - 1952

1881 Event - Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate

1834 Birthday - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis

1815 Event - U.S. flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli

1795 Event - U.S. pays $800,000 and a frigate as tribute to Algiers and Tunis

1665 Event - French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers

1655 Event - Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates

1574 Event - Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis

1535 Event - Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa

1535 Event - Emperor Charles V conquerors Tunis

1535 Event - Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis

1534 Event - Turkish Admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis

1332 Birthday - Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist, Muqaddimah













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