Republic & After · event 3 of 14

1961

Cairo Tower. The 187-metre concrete lotus opens on Gezira — funded, by persistent account, with money the CIA had intended as a personal inducement to Nasser.

The Republic & After era

  1. 1952
  2. 1956
  3. 1961
  4. 1967
  5. 1971
  6. 1973
  7. 1981
  8. 1988
  9. 2005
  10. 25 January 2011
  11. 2013
  12. 2015
  13. 2021
  14. 2020s

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