* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

* 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

Henry McMahon had exchanged letters with Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca in 1915, in which he had promised Hussein control of Arab lands with the exception of " portions of Syria " lying to the west of " the districts of Damascus, Homs, Hama and Aleppo ".

He was succeeded by Datuk Hussein Onn, the son of UMNO ’ s founder Onn Jaafar, and then by Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, who had been Education Minister since 1981, and who held power for 22 years.

Hussein bin Ali revolted against the Ottoman Empire from Mecca, and it was the first city captured by his forces in the Battle of Mecca ( 1916 ).

* 1963 – Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan

* June 4 – Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Arab nationalist

Ali bin Hussein, the Sharif of Mecca and leader of the Hashemite clan, revolted against the caliph in Istanbul and sided with Great Britain.

After the First World War, the Hashemite Sayyid Hussein bin Ali was proclaimed King of an independent Hejaz, but soon after, in 1924, he was defeated by Ibn Saud, who integrated Medina and the whole of the Hejaz into the modern kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

January 18: Faisal-Weizmann Agreement between Emir Faisal ( son of the King of Hejaz, Sharif of Mecca Sayyid Hussein bin Ali ), and Chaim Weizmann ( later President of the World Zionist Organization ).

Hussein bin Talal (, ; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999 ) was King of Jordan from the abdication of his father, King Talal, in 1952, until his death.

Hussein was born in Amman on 14 November 1935 to Talal bin Abdullah and Princess Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil.

*** His Royal Highness Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan ( born 1963 ).

*** His Royal Highness Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan ( born 1975 ).

*** His Royal Highness Prince Hamzah bin al Hussein of Jordan ( born 1980 ).

*** His Royal Highness Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein of Jordan ( born 1981 ).

Lawrence, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca led the successful revolt which contributed to the Ottoman defeat and breaking up of its Empire.

In March 1920, the Hashemite Kingdom of Syria was declared by Faisal bin Hussein in Damascus which encompassed most of what later became Transjordan.

The British Foreign Office had previously begun to support Sharif Hussein bin Ali, Emir of the Hejaz by seconding Lawrence of Arabia to him in 1915.

In 1925 the forces of Ibn Saud captured the holy city of Mecca from Sharif Hussein bin Ali, ending 700 years of Hashemite rule.

Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, ( Fayṣal ibn Ḥusayn ; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933 ) was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq ( today Iraq ) from 23 August 1921 to 1933.

Faisal was born in Ta ' if ( in present-day Saudi Arabia ) in 1883, the third son of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, the Grand Sharif of Mecca.

The monarchy was deposed and an Iraqi-backed puppet leader named Alaa Hussein Ali was installed as head of the " Provisional Government of Free Kuwait.

Pan-Arabism was first pressed by Sharif Hussein ibn Ali, the Sharif of Mecca, who sought independence for the Mashreq Arabs from the Ottoman Empire, and the establishment of a unified Arab state in the Mashreq.

They view Hussein as the defender of Islam from annihilation at the hands of Yazid I. Hussein is the last imam following Ali whom all Shia sub-branches mutually recognise.

The Al-Anfal Campaign was a genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people ( and many others ) in Iraqi Kurdistan led by the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein and headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid.

This character was, however, almost certainly named after Sharif Ali ibn Hussein, a leader in the Harith tribe, who played a part in the Revolt and is mentioned and pictured in T. E.

* c. 1010 — Avicenna ( Abu Ali al Hussein ibn Abdallah ibn Sina ) published The Canon of Medicine ( Kitab al-Qanun fi al-tibb ), in which he introduces clinical trials and clinical pharmacology, and which remains an authoritative text in European medical education up until the 17th century.

These groups came under the umbrella of the " Council for the Islamic Revolution ", which was supervised by Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, the designated heir of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Tensions between Bahrain and Iran had already been raised in the summer of 2007, when Hossein Shariatmadari, an Advisor to Iran ’ s supreme leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and editor of the Iranian newspaper, Kayan, called for Bahrain to be incorporated into Iran as its 14th province – a stance that echoed Saddam Hussein ’ s designs on Kuwait in the late 1980s.

Muhammed's grandson Hussein ibn Ali named one of his daughters Sakina.

On August 21, 2006, the trial of Saddam Hussein and six codefendants, including Hassan al-Majid (" Chemical Ali "), opened on charges of genocide against the Kurds.

The conference provided the political blueprint for British administration in both Iraq and Transjordan, and in offering these two regions to the sons of Sharif Hussein ibn Ali of the Hedjaz, Churchill stated that the spirit, if not the letter, of Britain's wartime promises to the Arabs might be fulfilled.

Although Elwell-Sutton accepted that the family were Sayyids descended from the seventh Imam Musa al-Kadhim, the great-greatgrandson of Hussein ibn Ali, who was the younger son of the marriage of Fatimah ( the daughter of the Prophet ) and Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, he considered this an " undistinguished lineage " with no special sanctity because " Sayyids proliferate throughout the Islamic world, in all walks of society and on both sides of every religious and political fence.

In 1916, Sharif Hussein ibn Ali proclaimed himself king of an independent Hejaz, as a result of the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence.

* 1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western " guests " ( actually hostages ) to try to prevent the Gulf War.

* 1980 – The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.

* 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces ; Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

* 1983 – Princess Iman bint Al Hussein

Babrak Karmal (, born Sultan Hussein ; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996 ) was an Afghan politician and statesman during the Cold War.

* 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi Dictator, ( executed for war crimes ) ( b. 1937 )

* 1997 – Hussein Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt.

* 2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit ( see Operation Red Dawn ).

* 1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.

* 1956 – Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member

* 1986 – Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein, of Jordan

* 2007 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.

* 1964 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader, son of Saddam Hussein ( d. 2003 )

* 2010 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor ( b. 1935 )

* 1982 – Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.

* 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.

* 1979 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.

* 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.

* 1974 – Princess Haya bint Al Hussein

* 2006 – Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya ( b. 1918 )

* 1922 – Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, Prime Minister of Malaysia ( d. 1976 )