BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 357                 Sunday, 22 December 2024         Antwerpen		
The Eyes Have it


Baġdād, Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād, Iraq.

Related events:

  1. Monday 12th of July 1926 (-) Writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist Gertrude Bell commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping pills
    There is much debate on Bell's death but it is unknown whether the overdose was an intentional suicide or accidental since she had asked her maid to wake her.

  2. Thursday 2nd of May 1935 (+) Last King of Iraq Faisal II is born

  3. Monday 2nd of March 2009 (x) Military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service Ali Hassan al-Majid is sentenced to death for the third time, for the assassination of Grand-Ayatollah Mohammad al-Sadr in 1999

  4. Sunday 17th of January 2010 (x) Military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service Ali Hassan al-Majid is sentenced to death for the fourth time

  5. Monday 10th of February 2014 (x) 21 militants of the ad-Dawla al-Islāmiyya fi al-'Irāq wa-sh-Shām (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) terrorist group are killed when an instructor at a training camp unwittingly used a belt packed with explosives while conducting a demonstration for suicide bombers