* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi interests also funded for the construction of the King Fahd Mosque, which is currently the largest mosque in Sarajevo.

* 1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

On August 3, 2005 the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, performing a coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.

They took advantage of President Taya's attendance at the funeral of Saudi King Fahd to organize the coup, which took place without loss of life.

The King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California and the Islamic Cultural Center of Italy in Rome represent two of Saudi Arabia's largest investments in foreign mosques as former Saudi king Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud contributed US $ 8 million and US $ 50 million to the two mosques, respectively.

Moqed was a law student from the small town of Al-Nakhil, Saudi Arabia ( west of Medina ), studying at King Fahd University's Faculty of Administration and Economics.

Musharraf's first foreign visit was to Saudi Arabia on October 26 where he met with King Fahd.

Saudi Arabia has long been seen as the most pro-Western of the Arab States and a close ally of the US, particularly under King Fahd.

A marked change in U. S .- Saudi relations occurred, as Abdullah sought to put distance between his policies and the unpopular pro-Western policies of King Fahd.

With the help of Munib Masri, a pro-Palestinian Jordanian cabinet member, and Fahd al-Khomeimi, the Saudi ambassador to Jordan, Arafat managed to enter Syria with nearly two thousand of his fighters.

* King Fahd ( Saudi Arabia )

* January 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia temporarily gives power to Crown Prince Abdullah, his legal successor, due to illness.

* February 21 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia announces his medical recovery in the national press and assumes power again from his brother, Crown Prince Abdullah.

* September 23 – King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals is established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the College of Petroleum and Minerals.

** Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

The causeway to the island of Umm an Nasan, off the west coast of Bahrain, continues on to the Saudi mainland town of Al Khubar through the King Fahd Causeway.

The controversial King Fahd Academy is an independent Saudi funded school within the borough.

In 1982, King Fahd made him the military attache at the Saudi Embassy, a move which could have ended his diplomatic career.

However, in 1983, Fahd appointed Bandar as Saudi Ambassador to the United States.

Bandar bin Sultan returned to Saudi Arabia weeks prior to the death of King Fahd, upon which Bandar's father, Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz, became the nation's Crown Prince.

It has also had involvement in a number of other high profile construction engineering projects: numerous power projects such as refineries and nuclear power plants ; transportation projects including the Channel Tunnel, the BART system, King Fahd International Airport in Dammam ( the largest Airport in the world by land area ), Hong Kong International Airport and the Big Dig ; and other projects such as the Kingdom Centre and Tower in Saudi Arabia, Jubail Industrial City, the rebuilding of the civil infrastructure of Iraq funded by the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), and the hauling and installing of more than 35, 000 trailers and mobile homes for Hurricane Katrina victims in Mississippi.

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The construction of the mosque was mostly funded by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and the interior decoration by the Moroccan king Hassan II.

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Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, ( ) ( 1923 – 1 August 2005 ) was King of Saudi Arabia, from 1982 to 2005.

In 1932, Fahd watched as his father officially founded the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by signing the Treaty of Jeddah.

The King Fahd International Airport in Saudi Arabia, which was completed in 1999, surpassed its surface area.

( King Fahd International Airport near Dammam in Saudi Arabia later surpassed Mirabel as the world's largest airport by property area, a record it still retains ).

Notable causeways include those that connect Singapore and Malaysia ( the Johor-Singapore Causeway ), Bahrain and Saudi Arabia ( 25-km long King Fahd Causeway ) and Venice to the mainland, all of which carry roadways and railways.

* King Fahd Causeway, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia ()

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-- Fahd A royal name in Saudi Arabia that bears connotations of courage and fierceness.

* King Fahd Academy, a private school in Mehlem, Bad Godesberg, which also includes a mosque

Furthermore, the Jewish Defense League was suspected of plotting to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California.

For example, when the house of Ali-Oraid, the grandson of Muhammed was discovered and excavated, King Fahd himself ordered that it be bulldozed in case it should become a pilgrimage site.

* 1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.

King Khalid ( 1975 – 1982 ) left government largely to his Crown Prince, Fahd, who succeeded him as King ( 1982 – 2005 ).

The most powerful clan faction is known as the ' Sudairi Seven ', comprising the late King Fahd and his full brothers and their descendants.

In March 1992, King Fahd issued several decrees outlining the basic statutes of government and codifying royal succession for the first time.

In September 1993, King Fahd issued additional reform decrees, appointing the members of the national Consultative Council and spelling out procedures for the new council's operations.