My Muslim Calendar Project

November 6 Events 447  – A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the  Walls of Constantinople , including 57 towers. [1] Births 1950 –  Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad , Pakistani politician [55] Deaths Holidays and Observances

November 5 Events 1556  –  Second Battle of Panipat : Fought between the forces of  Hem Chandra Vikramaditya , the Hindu king at Delhi and forces of Muslim Emperor Akbar. 1828  –  Greek War of Independence : The French  Morea expedition  to recapture Morea (now the  Peloponnese ) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula. 1911  – After declaring war on the  Ottoman Empire  on  September 29 , 1911, Italy  annexes  Tripoli  and  Cyrenaica . 1914  –  World War I :  France  and the  British Empire  declare war on the  Ottoman Empire . 1956  –  Suez Crisis : British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign. 1996  –  Pakistani President   Farooq Leghari  dismisses the government of  Prime Minister   Benazir Bhutto  and dissolves the  National Assembly of Pakistan . 2006  –  Sa...

November 4 Events 1798  – Beginning of the  Russo-Ottoman siege  of  Corfu . 1922  – In Egypt, British archaeologist  Howard Carter  and his men find the entrance to  Tutankhamun 's tomb in the  Valley of the Kings . 1960  – At the  Kasakela Chimpanzee Community  in Tanzania, Dr.  Jane Goodall  observes  chimpanzees  creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals. 1979  –  Iran hostage crisis : A group of  Iranian  college students overruns the U.S. embassy in  Tehran  and takes 90 hostages. 1995  –  Israel-Palestinian conflict :  Israeli  prime minister  Yitzhak Rabin  is  assassinated  by an extremist Israeli. 2008  –  Barack Obama  becomes the first person of biracial or  African-American  descent to be elected President of the United States. 2010 –  Qantas Flight 32 , an  Airbus A380 ...

November 3 Events 361  – Emperor  Constantius II  dies of a  fever  at  Mopsuestia  in  Cilicia ; on his deathbed he is  baptised  and declares his cousin  Julian  rightful successor. 644  –  Umar ibn al-Khattab , the second Muslim  caliph , is assassinated by a  Persian  slave in  Medina . 1898  – France withdraws its troops from  Fashoda  (now in Sudan), ending the  Fashoda Incident . 1956  –  Suez Crisis : The  Khan Yunis killings  by the  Israel Defense Forces  in Egyptian-controlled Gaza result in the deaths of 275 Palestinians. 1975  –  Syed Nazrul Islam ,  A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman ,  Tajuddin Ahmad , and  Muhammad Mansur Ali , Bangladeshi politicians and  Sheikh Mujibur Rahman  loyalists, are murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail. 1982  – The  Salang Tunnel fire  in  Afghanistan  by kills ...

November 2 Events 619  – A  qaghan  of the  Western Turkic Khaganate  is  assassinated  in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of  Tang  emperor  Gaozu . 1912  –  Bulgaria  defeats the  Ottoman Empire  in the  Battle of Lule Burgas , the bloodiest battle of the  First Balkan War , which opens her way to  Constantinople . 1914  –  World War I : The  Russian Empire  declares war on the  Ottoman Empire  and the  Dardanelles  are subsequently closed. 1917  – The  Balfour Declaration  proclaims British support for the "establishment in  Palestine  of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities". 1949  – The  Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference  ends with the Ne...

November 1 Events 1009  –  Berber  forces led by  Sulayman ibn al-Hakam  defeat the  Umayyad  caliph  Muhammad II of Córdoba  in the battle of  Alcolea . 1214  – The port city of  Sinope   surrenders  to the  Seljuq Turks . 1911  – World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the  Italo-Turkish War . Second Lieutenant  Giulio Gavotti  of  Italy  drops several small bombs. 1914 – World War I: The  Australian Imperial Force  (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from  Albany, Western Australia  bound for Egypt. 1922  –  Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate : The last sultan of the  Ottoman Empire ,  Mehmed VI , abdicates. 1928  – The  Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the  Turkish Alphabet , replaces the  Arabic alphabet  with the  Latin alphabet . 1948  –  Athenagoras I...