Memory of the day: Israel withdraws from El-Arish & returns it to Egypt under the Camp David Accords in 1979

CAIRO – 25 May 2021: On May 25, many important events took place.

Important world events:

240 BC - The first discovery of Halley's Comet.

1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself King of Italy.

1882 - The consulates of the United Kingdom and France in Egypt presented a memorandum requesting that Ahmed Orabi be deported from Egypt while keeping his rank and salary. Ali Pasha Fahmy and Abdel-Aal Pasha Helmy were sent to the countryside during the Orabi Revolution.

1921 - Bloody demonstrations in Alexandria after Saad Zaghloul speech forced Adly Yakan’s Government to resign.

1946 - King Abdullah Bin Al-Hussein I declared the independence of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

1961 - US President John Kennedy announces, during a congressional meeting, his intention to send a human mission to the moon.

1979 - Israel withdraws from El-Arish and returns it to Egypt as per the Camp David Accords.