Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
1935 – 2021 · aged 86
Egyptian Field marshal and former statesman (1935–2021)
- Born
- 31 Oct 1935 · Cairo
- Died
- 21 Sept 2021 · Cairo
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 31 Oct 1935BornBorn in Cairo
- 1956WarSuez Crisis
- 1962 – 1970WarNorth Yemen civil war
- 1967WarSix-Day War
- 1967 – 1970WarWar of Attrition
- 1973WarYom Kippur War
- 1990 – 1991WarGulf War
- 1991 – 2012RoleDefense Minister
- 2011 – 2012RoleSecretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement
- 21 Sept 2021DiedDied in Cairo
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1935 – 2021).
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Muhammad Hussein Tantawi Soliman (Arabic: محمد حسين طنطاوي سليمان, romanized: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭanṭāwī Sulaymān; 31 October 1935 – 21 September 2021) was an Egyptian military officer and politician. He was the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces and, as chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, was the de facto head of state from the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011 until the inauguration of Mohamed Morsi as president of Egypt on 30 June 2012.
Tantawi served in the government as Minister of Defense and Military Production from 1991 until Morsi discharged him on 12 August 2012.
Text from the Wikipedia article Muhammad Hussein Tantawy, CC BY-SA 4.0
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