This Day in History
Yom Kippur War
On this day in 1973, on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, which suffered heavy casualties, but Israeli forces successfully fought back, and the war eventually ended inconclusively.
More events on this day
2000: Near Sakaiminato, Japan, an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck, the most powerful earthquake since the devastating Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, but damage and casualties were relatively low because the epicentre was in a sparsely inhabited area.
1993: Michael Jordan retired from professional basketball, saying “I don't have anything else to prove,” only to return in March 1995.
1981: Anwar el-Sadat was assassinated by members of the radical fringe of the Muslim opposition.
1927: The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premiered in New York City, introducing the sound era of motion pictures.
1892: The great English poet of the Victorian Age, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, died.
1849: Thirteen Hungarian generals, “the martyrs of Arad,” were executed for their role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848–49.
891: Formosus was elected pope.
105: The Roman army was defeated by Germanic tribes in the Battle of Arausio. |
