Assassination of Anwar Sadat Assassination of Anwar Sadat The assassination of Anwar Sadat occurred on 6 October 1981. Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr, during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back a small part of the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War. A fatwa approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar Abdel-Rahman, a cleric later convicted in the US for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The assassination was undertaken by members of the
Peace One Day Arena announced a new Peace One Day initiative "Global Truce 2012", Razorlight and Eliza Doolittle headlined. On 21 June 2012 a Peace One Day concert at Derry, in the spirit of the Olympic Truce marked the start of the London 2012 Festival and was also a three-month countdown to "Global Truce 2012", some of the musicians that performed were Pixie Lott, Newton Faulkner and Imelda May. The "Peace One Day Celebration" annual concert on Peace Day 21 September 2012, the day of "Global Truce" was held at Wembley Arena in London, with musicians Elton John, James Morrison and 2Cellos, introductions