1924: In Luxor, Egypt, Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
1969: Dean Rusk, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s outgoing secretary of state, devotes his last press conference to the Arab-Israeli conflict by urging all sides to abide by the recently adopted United Nations Security Council 242. “We call upon the Arab governments to recognize that they must do their utmost to tesrain terrorist activities,” Rusk says. “We call upon Israel to recognize that a policy of excessive retaliation will not produce the peace that Israel surely desires.”
1999: A powerful bomb intended to assassinate Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif explodes under a bridge near Sharif's home in Lahore, Pakistan. He is not hurt and was not traveling near the bridge at the time of the blast.
2002: The Lebanese government censors the Saudi-funded, London-based pan-Arab daily As-Sharq Al-Awsat, requiring it to get permission each day to distribute the paper in Lebanon. The measure follows a report in the paper on Dec. 31, 2001 that Lebanese President Emile Lahoud was the target of an assassination attempt in Monte Carlo. The presidential press office denied the report as a "complete fabrication" and the paper apologized. Censorship of the paper was ended on Jan. 10.
2004 : An Egyptian Beoing 737 carrying 148 people, including 133 French tourists and 13 Egyptians, crashes into the Red Sea after taking off from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheik on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. All passengers and crew are killed. The plane was chartered by then 6-year-old Flash Airlines, a joint Egyptian-Italian venture that operated just two Boeing 737s.
