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Amer was approached by high-ranking Egyptian officers and was given a choice to stand trial for treason, which would inevitably have ended with his conviction and execution, or die an honourable death by taking poison. Amer chose the latter option and received a full military burial.
(13 September 1967)

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		Writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell aka The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq 14 July 1868 (+) is born in Washington, United Kingdom. 12 July 1926 (-) commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping pills in Baġdād, Iraq.
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