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

1990 PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis

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

1984 Riot in Tunis kills over 100

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

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

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

1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia

1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis

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

1943 Gen Alexander, Eisenhower, Anderson and Bradley discuss assault on Tunis

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

1891 Harold RLG, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Gov-gen of Canada, 1945-52

1881 Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate

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

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

1795 US pays $800,000 and a frigate as tribute to Algiers and Tunis

1665 French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers

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

1574 Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis

1535 Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Adm Barbarossa

1535 Emperor Charles V conquerors Tunis

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

1534 Turkish Admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis

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



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