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Neanderthal Code: Episode 1

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Slim, William Joseph, 1st Viscount Slim (1891–1970)

British field marshal in World War II. He served in the North Africa campaign 1941 then commanded the 1st Burma Corps 1942–45, stemming the Japanese invasion of India, and then forcing them out of Burma (now Myanmar) in 1945. He was governor general of Australia 1953–60. He was created a KCB in 1944 and a Viscount in 1960.


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The Arab-Israeli Conflict
2 January 1993
Warring factions discuss peace for Bosnia in Geneva. It is the first time that the head of the Muslims, Serbs, Bosnians and Croats have met face to face since the outbreak of the war in Yugoslavia.
13 January 1964

In Calcutta (Kolkata), India, more than 100 people are killed following Hindu-Muslim rioting.

2 July 1990
More than 1,000 Muslim pilgrims are killed in a human stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
11 July 1995
The Bosnian Serb army forces Dutch peacekeepers to withdraw from the United Nations safe area of Srebrenica. The Serb army subsequently commits one of Europe’s worst genocides in Srebrenica killing in excess of 7000 Muslims.
15 July 1099
The city of Jerusalem is captured by the Crusaders - ending centuries of Muslim rule.
20 August 636 AD
A Muslim Army defeats the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Yarmouk.
31 August 2005
In Iraq, more than a 1000 Shia Muslim pilgrims die in a stampede across a bridge in northern Baghdad.
23 October 1086
Muslim commander Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats Castilian King Alfonso VI at the Battle of az-Zallaqah in modern day south-west Spain.
14 November 1914
The First World War: The religious leader Sheikh-ul-Islam declares an Islamic holy war on behalf of the Ottoman Empire, urging his Muslim followers to take up arms against Britain, France, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro
15 November 1978
A plane carrying Muslim pilgrims from Mecca to Indonesia crashes in Sri Lanka killing 183 people.
16 November 1998
Benazir Bhutto is elected Prime Minister of Pakistan - the first women leader of a Muslim country in the modern era. 
17 November 1997
68 tourists killed when they are attacked by Muslim terrorists in the Valley of the Queens at Luxor in Egypt.
23 November 2002
The Miss World contest is forced to leave Nigeria and is subsequently moved to London, England after rioting by Muslim youths opposed to the competition. 
27 November 1095
Pope Urban II makes a speech giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of “Deus volt!” – “God wills it!”
6 December 1992
In India, a Hindu mob destroys a mosque and attacks other Muslim buildings in the north Indian town of Ayodhya.
 

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