War · May 15, 1948

Arab–Israeli conflict

Name: Arab–Israeli conflict
Start: 1948-05-15
Location: Middle East

78 years ago · Middle East

78th anniversary

Since the declaration of Israel's establishment in 1948, conflict has existed between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries, rooted in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

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The 79th anniversary falls on May 15, 2027.

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1048–1131

Omar Khayyám

Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) was a Persian poet and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian literature. He was born in Nishapur, Iran and lived during the Seljuk era, around the time of the First Crusade.

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1859–1906

Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, for their work on radioactivity.

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1891–1940

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( buul-GAH-kof; Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков, IPA: 15 May 1891 – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

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1937–2022

Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Körbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001.

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1919

Greco-Turkish War

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1948

1948 Arab–Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War (15 May 1948 – 10 March 1949), also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine (29 November 1947 – 14 May 1948) as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war.

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1955

Austrian State Treaty

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2026

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