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Tripoli in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Tripoli in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

4 records3 event labels3 people1941–1988

Historical events in Tripoli

1941

11 January 1941
Sunflower
Adolf Hitler · World War, 2nd

Orders German reinforcements for Tripoli

11 February 1941
Sunflower
Adolf Hitler · World War, 2nd

German units disembark for Tripoli

12 February 1941
Suez Canal
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel · World War, 2nd

Arrives in North Africa to support Italian forces and begins operations that eventually threaten Egypt and the Suez Canal.

1988

11 January 1988
Bombing of Tripoli
Christine Endrigkeit · Red Army Faction

Plants a bomb at the La Belle Disco which leads to the US bombing of Tripoli. Arrested for planting a bomb at the La Belle Disco in 1986

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Germany and Tripoli. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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