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January 11, 1975saturday
Patriarch Meouchi died
The 70th Maronite patriarch of Antioch and the Middle East died of a hart attack. He was 81 years old.

\_this day in full the books also date it 3 February 1975 \_on this day

December 11, 1978monday
Dany Chamoun, a military leader of the NLP, was attacked on his way to the AUH, but escaped unharmed.

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September 11, 1981friday
The Museum roadway was officially reopened after several days of shilly-shallying.

\_this day in full the books also date it 12 September 1981 \_on this day

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Ménargues sets the agreement at the Vigilance Committee meeting of 11 September, where Syria's Mohammad Ghanem came out for deploying the Lebanese Army from Sodeco to the port. The Museum crossing, almost completely shut for five months, reopened on 12 September.

January 11, 1983tuesday
Bombs fell on Hadeth and Baabda. For the first time since the Israeli invasion in June 1982 and since the Multinational Force arrived in Beirut, the guns came closer to the capital as bombs fell on the suburbs of Hadeth, Baabda, Kfarchima and Bsaba killing 2 and injuring 9.

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February 11, 1984saturday
French porpoises and Internal Security forces took in charge the Museum crossing point.

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'Porpoises' is a literal rendering of the French 'marsouins', the nickname of the French marine infantry (troupes de marine).

December 11, 1984tuesday
The dollar exceeded 9 Lebanese Pounds.

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De Clerck and Malsagne give 8.7 pounds to the dollar for 1984, without a month.

January 11, 1985friday
A bomb exploded in Mazraa in front of the Bank of Beirut and the Arab Countries, killing 3 persons and wounding 31 others.

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December 11, 1985wednesday
A new security plan was executed in West Beirut. The army and the Internal Security Forces were controlling the public order, with the help of the Amal-PSP military police.

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February 11, 1990sunday
The Kesrouan was now at the center of the Aoun-Geagea conflict. Despite all mediations and attempts to maintain the precarious truce, belligerents were fighting on the new front of Daraya, separating the Metn and the Kesrouan.

\_this day in full the books also date it 10 February 1990 \_on this day

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Colonel Paul Fares declared himself head of a 'neutral army' on 10 February 1990, as a Lebanese Forces push on the army's Kleiat mountain position stalled (Hanf).