nasser

     

Gamal Abel Nasser (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر‎; Gamāl ‘Abd an-Nāṣir; - January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) was the second President of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Along with Muhammad Naguib, he led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, which removed King Farouk I and heralded a new period of industrialization in Egypt, together with a profound advancement of Arab nationalism, including a short-lived union with Syria. Nasser inspired anti-colonial and pan-Arab revolutions in Algeria, Libya, Iraq and Yemen, and played a major role in founding the Palestine Liberation Organization, in 1964, and the international Non-Aligned Movement.

Trivia about nasser

  • About 1000 times as many people attended this man's 1970 Cairo funeral as attended his successor's
  • Egypt's president from 1956 to 1970, he dreamed of leading the whole Arab world
  • In 1952 a group of army officers overthrew King Farouk & by 1954 this man had taken over the Egyptian govt.
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Aswan, Egypt.) On January 9, 1960, this man set off 10 tons of dynamite to start construction of the Aswan High Dam
  • 1970:5 million people turn out in Cairo for his funeral