During the start of the Arab Spring, Gaddafi condemned the Tunisian revolution in January 2011, saying protesters were misled by WikiLeaks and voicing solidarity with ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

* 1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

* 1936 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian politician, 2nd President of Tunisia

Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has maintained Tunisia's long-time policy of seeking good relations with the West, while playing an active role in Arab and African regional bodies.

* September 3 – Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia

* November 7 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali assumes the Presidency of Tunisia.

* Chalid Ben Abdulmelik and Ali Ben Isa measure the size of the Earth.

* Moorish exiles from Spain, led by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami, found the city of Chefchaouen in the north of Morocco.

* July 26 – Battle of Siffin: Ali Ben Abu Talib fights Muawiyah over the Caliphate of Islam and captures Anbar.

* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller

Between 1956 and 2011, Tunisia operated as a de-facto single party state, with politics dominated by the secular Constitutional Democratic Rally ( RCD ) under former Presidents Habib Bourgiba and then Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

In the presidential vote, Ben Ali soundly defeated his challengers, Mohamed Bouchiha ( PUP ), Ahmed Inoubli ( UDU ) and Ahmed Ibrahim ( Ettajdid Movement ) for a fifth term in office.

Following the 2010 – 2011 protests and the vacation of the Presidency by President Ben Ali, elections for a Constituent Assembly were held on 23 October 2011.

Trade unionists initially arrested for protesting working conditions were released on the order of President Ben Ali and officially pardoned in October 2009 in a move that was welcomed by Amnesty International.

Protests in 2010 – 2011 led to President Ben Ali fleeing Tunisia, his presidency being declared vacant by the Constitutional Council, and Fouad Mebazaa becoming acting President for up to 60 days.

In 1987 the departure from power in Tunisia of President Habib Bourguiba and his replacement by the more diplomatic Zine el Abidine Ben Ali brought the two nations closer again.

A comic ballet in four sections: Madame Upanova and her ostriches ( Morning ); Hyacinth Hippo and her servants ( Afternoon ); Elephanchine and her bubble-blowing elephant troupe ( Evening ); and Ben Ali Gator and his troop of alligators ( Night ).

alt = The cartoon depicts Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as the next to fall after the Tunisian revolution forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country.

Under owner James Ben Ali Haggin, the Rancho was famous for its horse breeding ; one of the horses bred on the Rancho won the Ben Ali Stakes, also known as the Kentucky Derby.

The works of the Sanusi family in pre-colonial times, and of Emir Abdelkader and Sheikh Ben Badis in colonial times, are widely noted.

Ben Franklin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born into a Puritan family among those that fled to Massachusetts to establish a purified Congregationalist Christianity in New England, when King Charles I of England began persecuting Puritans.

Ben Franklin followed in his grandfather's footsteps in his battles against the wealthy Penn family that owned the Pennsylvania Colony.

His father, Ben Selig, had come to the United States from Romania with his family when he was four years old.

" ( The captain's family name is " Ben Yehuda "— the name of the noted Zionist linguist Eliezer Ben Yehuda who had a major share in transforming Hebrew, a purely liturgical language for many centuries, into a spoken language again.

The Staad family is described as the most unlucky family within Delain ; but Ben and Peter strike up a close friendship.

Additional replicas of the Christus include a full size replica at the The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland within its iconic dome, and a full-sized copy in bronze at the Ben H. Powell III family plot in Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas as a memorial to the Powell's son Rawley.

Ben Asher was the last of a distinguished family of Masoretes extending back to the latter half of the 8th century.

* Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who grew up near Zinn and were family friends, gave A People's History a plug in their Academy Award-winning screenplay for Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ).

In September 1829, John Batman ( aged 28 ), with the assistance of several " Sydney blacks " he brought to Tasmania, led an attack on an Aboriginal family group together numbering 60 – 70 men, women and children in the Ben Lomond district of north-east Tasmania.

One of the oldest homes in Jennings is where the Ben Bates family lives.

" Reporter Ben Finley's family originates from Finleyville.

Heritage Jubilee, held the third weekend in April at Ben Gill Park, is a family celebration with a BBQ cook-off, museum tours, arts and crafts exhibition, carnival, live music, a quilt show, an auto show, and other attractions.

An episode of the 1980s US sitcom, Growing Pains entiled " Meet the Seavers " has character Ben Seaver dream that he is an actor named Jeremy Miller starring in a sitcom about the Seaver family, with Miller and other cast members appearing as themselves.

The show, hosted by NBC announcer Ben Grauer, who had also hosted many of the original Toscanini broadcasts, featured interviews with members of the conductor's family, as well as musicians of the NBC Symphony, David Sarnoff, and noted classical musicians who had worked with the conductor, such as Giovanni Martinelli.

The family dog, Ben, is mysteriously poisoned.

Simon also performed several concerts during the 2004 holiday season at Harlem's Apollo Theater, along with BeBe Winans, son Ben and daughter Sally, Rob Thomas, Livingston Taylor, Mindy Jostyn and Kate Taylor, along with other members of the Taylor and Simon family.

The show chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright ( Lorne Greene ).

Canadian-born Lorne Greene starred as family patriarch Ben Cartwright.

The first of his continuing roles in a TV series was as the family patriarch Ben Cartwright on the western series Bonanza ( 1959 – 1973 ), making Greene a household name.

When they arrived at the new ranch, which had been in the family ( it was originally owned by an uncle, Ben McCoy, who had died ), they gained a Mexican ranch hand named Pepino Garcia, played by the Puerto Rican-born Tony Martinez, who worked with them and eventually became a part of the family.

A number of longtime characters were written out during this time, including Ben and Eve McFarren, Diane Ballard, Sara McIntyre, Adam Thorpe, Barbara Norris Thorpe, Justin Marler and Steve Jackson ; actress Lenore Kasdorf left the show in 1981, and producers decided not to recast the role of Rita Stapleton Bauer, given how popular Kasdorf had been ; and Bauer family matriarch Bertha " Bert " Bauer died, after Charita Bauer's death in 1985.