2015 Event The Vatican indicates its intention to enter a treaty with Palestine, officially recognizing it as an independent state 2014 Event Palestine will be officially recognized as a sovereign state by the new government of Sweden; though the U.N. General Assembly supported such recognition two years ago, few nations have officially extended this recognition 2013 Event Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine, hoping the two sides could re-enter peace talks which have been on a three-year hiatus 2013 Event The President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, declares that official documents must use the words 'State of Palestine' 2011 Event Nabil al-Araby, Foreign Minister of Egypt, calls for the U.S. to support and independent Palestine 1992 Death Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered 1988 Event U.S. agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs) 1988 Event PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence 1987 Event Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank 1982 Event U.S. vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces 1976 Event U.N. Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Org 1974 Event U.N. General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty 1974 Death Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/president Com Palestine, dies 1973 Event Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine 1970 Event Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania 1969 Event Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine 1969 Event The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO 1967 Event People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established 1966 Birthday Yahya Ayyash, born in Palestine, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis 1964 Event Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem 1957 Death Leo Perutz, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938, dies in Bad Ischi, Austria 1956 Event Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force 1956 Event Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine 1948 Event Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine 1948 Event Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine 1948 Event Ralph J. Bunche confirmed as acting United Nations mediator in Palestine 1948 Death Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator for Palestine, assassinated 1948 Event Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine 1948 Event 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends 1948 Event Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed 1947 Event Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine 1947 Event Arab terrorist campaign opens in Palestine 1947 Event U.N. General Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews 1947 Event British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine 1947 Event Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine 1946 Death Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered 1946 Event President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine 1946 Event Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus 1946 Event Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist 1946 Event British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv 1945 Event Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine 1945 Birthday Charlemagne Palestine, composer 1944 Birthday Kinky Friedman, Palestine, Texas, country rocker 1943 Birthday Gene Watson, Palestine, Texas, country singer, Heartaches, Love and Stuff 1942 Event David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine 1941 Event Earthquake hits Palestine 1939 Event Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II 1939 Event British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 1938 Event British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine 1937 Event Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens 1936 Event Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine 1936 Event Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine 1934 Event 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine 1933 Event Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens 1929 Event Jewish Agency for Palestine forms 1929 Birthday Yasser Arafat, leader, Palestine Liberation Organization 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 1927 Event Earthquake hits Palestine 1924 Event Bene Berak Palestine founded 1924 Event Bene Brak Palestine founded 1922 Event President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine 1922 Event British mandate of Palestine begins 1921 Event Turk and Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews 1920 Birthday Nehemiah Persoff, Jerusalem Palestine, actor, Al Capone, Yentl 1920 Event British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect, lasts 28 years 1920 Event Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate 1918 Event Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts 1918 Event Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine 1917 Event British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks 1917 Event Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine 1915 Event Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine 1913 Event Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine 1912 Event Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid 1910 Birthday Josef Tal, born in Pinne, Poland, born Joseph Gruenthal, composer, pianist, played hard with Palestine Orchestra, developed notational system for computer-generated compositions at Hebrew University 1901 Event Arabs attack Gedara, Palestine 1887 Birthday Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/British general/director of Palestine, 1945-48 1886 Birthday John SSPV Gort, viscount of Limerick/Field Marshal of Palestine 1882 Birthday Leo Perutz, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938 1882 Event 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine 1835 Event Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine 1834 Event Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews 1818 Event Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine 1809 Event 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine) 1799 Event Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine 1799 Event Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine 1759 Event Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred 1415 Event Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office 1291 Event Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine 1260 Event Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army 1191 Event Richard Coeur de Lion and Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine 1165 Event Ramjbam and his family reach Acre Palestine 636 Event Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
