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Yasser Arafat

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Yasser Arafat

d. 2004

President of Palestine from 1989 to 2004

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Biography

Yasser Arafat, also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, President of Palestine from 1989 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. Ideologically an Arab nationalist and a socialist, Arafat was a founding member of the Fatah political party, which he led from 1959 until 2004.

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Timeline

1929
Birth

Palestinian leader (d. 2004)

August 24 →
1964
Event

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded, with Yasser Arafat elected as its first leader.

May 28 →
1969
Event

Yasser Arafat asume como presidente de la Organización para la Liberación de Palestina.

February 4 →
1988
Event

Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.

December 7 →
1988
Event

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.

December 13 →
1993
Event

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

September 13 →
1994
Event

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

October 14 →
1994
Event

The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.

October 14 →
1995
Event

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

September 28 →
1998
Event

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.

October 23 →
2004
Death

Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)

November 11 →
2004
Event

Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

November 11 →

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