Modern Muslim Timeline of Events see link below.
More dates in history some that stick out before the election.
1967, June 5th-10th - marks a Six Day War between the Arabs and the Israelis.
1968, June 5th - The assassination of Robert Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan, working with Khaiber Khan.
1979, July 16th - Saddam Hussein overthrows President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. He used violence to maintain this new found power.
1995, June 26th - The third attempt on the life of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. He survives another assasination attempt. Islamic fundamentalists claim the attack. Two gunmen and two Ethiopian policemen are killed in Addid Ababa as a result.
1995, July 4th - Two Britons and two Americans are kidnapped by armed Kashmir rebels. The kidnappers were Muslims fighting for Kashmir's Independence from India.
1995, July 9th - John Childs, one of the American hostages, escapes from his captors. He gives information about the location of the other three men. Kashmiri rebels are demanding the return of 22 imprisoned Muslims for the three remaining men.
1995, July 16th - Two American citizens are released by Saddam Hussein, after being sentenced to eight years in prison for entering Iraq illegally.
1995, July 24th - Suicide bomber kills five in Tel Aviv. Thirty are injured after a radical Arab blew himself up on a Tel Aviv bus.
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