** Egyptian dynasties

** Ancient Egyptian religion

** List of ancient Egyptian Papyri

** Egyptian cuisine in particular is rich in vegetarian foods.

** Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

** Mohamed Atta, Egyptian pilot and airplane hijacker ( b. 1968 )

** Suez Crisis ( 1956 ) – The Suez Crisis was a war fought on Egyptian territory in 1956.

** Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher ( d. 2002 )

** Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2006 )

** Ahmed Helmy, Egyptian actor

** Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

** Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist ( b. 1911 )

** The Egyptian Lover, American rapper, DJ and producer

** Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood ( d. 1949 )

** Amr Diab, Egyptian singer

** Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor ( b. 1915 ) King Edward VIII

** Suez Crisis: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.

** Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor ( d. 1972 )

** Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer

** Hossam Hassan, Egyptian footballer

** Moustafa Amar, Egyptian pop star

** Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer ( b. 1907 )

** Israeli Air Force F4 Phantom II fighter bombers kill forty-seven Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as Bahr el-Baqar massacre.

** Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.

** Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and Vice Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, addresses the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention, challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation.

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

** The Australia Olympic Committee announces it will send an Olympic delegation to Moscow, despite objections by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.

** A peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war ( they will be caught in the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam ).

** The Guinean delegation to the OAU meeting in Ethiopia, become hostages of the Ghanaian government in Accra.

** Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U. S. President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as " a maneuver to deceive world opinion.

** Beginning of talks about prolongation of ceasefire after World War I. German delegation is against extending it for Greater Poland, but France forces them to allow this condition.

** In the Dáil, Éamon de Valera accuses the delegation to London of having ignored its instructions.

** A delegation of Roman Senators visits the new conquered territories in Iberian Peninsula so as to see what needs to be accomplished so Hispania could be incorporated into the growing empire.

** IsraAid sent a delegation of medical personnel, psychologists, and experienced search-and-rescue divers.

** Father Jerome in The Castle of Otranto – Jerome, though not evil, is certainly weak as he gives up his son when he is born and leaves his lover.

** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.

** A labor dispute ignites a race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois, which leaves 250 dead.

** Mobutu Sese Seko leaves Kinshasa, eventually settling in Morocco.

** A plane crash in the Isle of Wight leaves 43 dead.

** Spain leaves the League of Nations.

** Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers and offers to buy Alcatraz for $ 24 ( he leaves the island January 1970 ).

** An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia ( now in the Republic of Macedonia ) leaves 1, 800 dead.

** South Africa officially leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.

** Nagorno-Karabakh War: in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, fighting between Armenians and Azeris leaves at least 60 people dead.

** British luxury liner leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic

** Richard Byrd leaves New York for the Arctic.

** Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza leaves Mexico City in a large train.

** France formally leaves NATO.

** A fight and stampede at a pre-season exhibition match between South African football teams Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in the town of Orkney near Johannesburg, South Africa leaves 42 dead.

** An explosion and fire aboard the U. S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.

** An earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela leaves 240 dead.

** A riot during a football match in Kayseri, Turkey leaves 44 dead, about 600 injured.

** A shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves 1 civilian and 3 IRA men dead.

** The last British soldier ( belonging to the Royal Navy ) leaves the Maltese Islands, after 179 years of presence.

** A fire at a hotel in Saragossa, Spain leaves 72 dead.

** The Utah Expedition leaves Fort Leavenworth, effectively beginning the Utah War.

** Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending 9 years of military occupation.

** The Purley Station rail crash in London leaves 5 dead and 94 injured.