President His Highness Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan was speaking to Arab League Secretary-General Dr Esmat Abdul Majeed who was accompanied by a number of Arab thinkers and politicians who participated in the symposium on the Arab future and the role of Arab League which ended its deliberations under the patronage of the president. The president expressed the hope that Arab reconciliation would be achieved soon. “God willing, we will all become united. In tolerance, forgiveness and solidarity and put aside the differences of the past. There is not a single infallible mankind. Therefore, reconciliation and forgiveness should prevail between brothers and friends. God Almighty forgives, and so should humans do. All wars that took place in the world since the early ages ended in reconciliation and peace,” Shaikh Zayed said. “If so, why can’t we [Arabs] reconcile and forgive each other. We believe that we must forgive the mistaken and give him a chance [to repent], because forgiveness would make us more stronger while hatred would widen our disintegration,” he added.
November 4
1890 The world’s first electric-powered underground railway opens in London, England.
1921 Japan’s Premier Takashi Hara is assassinated.
1922 British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt.
1924 Stanley Baldwin is elected as British Prime Minister.
1944 Allies announce that Greece has been liberated from German Nazis in Second World War.
1946 Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) is established.
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected US president.
1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary.
1964 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is exiled from Iran.
1975 United States closes its mission in Angola because of the violent struggle between three rival liberation groups.
1979 Students seize US Embassy in Tehran and take diplomats hostage for 444 days, demanding the ousted Shah of Iran as ransom.
1991 Former first lady Imelda Marcos returns to the Philippines after more than five years in exile.
1992 Iran arrests US businessman, Milton Meier, on charges of corruption and espionage.
1993 Jean Chretien becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
2000 The Dubai Media City is launched with a promise of freedom of expression and no censorship.
2005 Arson hit-and-run attacks take place in suburbs of Paris and other French cities. A total of 897 vehicles are torched.
2008 Barack Obama is elected the first black President of the United States.
2009 An Afghan policeman fires on British soldiers in the volatile southern province of Helmand, killing five.
2010 An AeroCaribbean Flight 883 crashes and burst into flames in a mountainous area in Santi Spiritus province, Cuba, killing all 68 people abroad.
2011 Bomb and gun attacks targeting police stations and churches in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu, kills 63 people.
2012 Chinese disgraced politician Bo Xilai is expelled from the Communist Party.
2014 Alexander Zakharchenko sworn in as new head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in Ukraine.
2015 More than 40 killed, including people on the ground, after cargo plane crashes following take off from Juba airport in South Sudan.
2016 A car bombing kills eight people in Ankara, Turkey.
