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Mecca


1992 Yvonne Bryceland, actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66

1990 Panic in tunnel of Mecca, 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death

1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

1979 Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed

1975 Gas stove explodes and starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)

1931 Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies

1924 Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca

1924 Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca

1325 Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca

622 Moslem Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hejira)

570 Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca



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