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| 1980, Dec. 16 |
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| Official opening of the Suez Canal to supertankers. | 1 |
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| 1981, Sept. 3–7 |
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| Arrest of over 1,500 critics of the government. Among those detained were religious extremists, intellectuals, and leftist and conservative political leaders. The government banned the publications of the Muslim Brotherhood and all Coptic organizations. On Sept. 5, Sadat deposed Coptic pope Shenuda III and outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood. | 2 |
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| Oct. 6 |
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| ASSASSINATION OF PRES. SADAT in Alexandria by members of a radical Muslim organization inside the army. His successor was V.P. HOSNI MUBARAK. | 3 |
| Death of Salah Abd al-Sabur (b. 1931), one of Egypt's leading poets. | 4 |
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