{"slug": "mogadishu", "label": "Mogadishu", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadishu", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2449", "qid": "Q2449", "description": "capital and the largest city of Somalia", "entries": 13, "years": 11, "span": [950, 2022], "span_label": ["950 CE", "2022 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 4}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Mogadishu, Somalia"], "related": [{"slug": "somalia", "label": "Somalia", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "saudi-arabia", "label": "Saudi Arabia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pakistan", "label": "Pakistan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "siad-barre", "label": "Siad Barre", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-korea", "label": "South Korea", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 950, "year_label": "950 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "City of Mogadishu is established.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365260811#Africa", "title": "950", "revid": 1365260811, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1905, "year_label": "1905 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April", "text": "April – The Italian government acquired control (from a private Italian company called SACI) of the coastal area around Mogadishu, and creates the colony of Italian Somaliland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373916061#April", "title": "1905 in Italy", "revid": 1373916061, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1977, "year_label": "1977 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 17", "text": "October 17–18 – German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm the hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia; three of the four hijackers die.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371657539#October", "title": "1977", "revid": 1371657539, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Somali President Siad Barre is injured in a car accident in Mogadishu and taken to Saudi Arabia for treatment. Somali opposition groups see this as an opportunity to try to remove Barre, beginning the Somali Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#May", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – President Barre suffers life-threatening injuries in an automobile collision near Mogadishu, when the car that was transporting him smashed into the back of a bus during a heavy rainstorm. He was treated in a hospital in Saudi Arabia for head injuries, broken ribs and shock over a period of a month.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1269183002#May", "title": "1986 in Somalia", "revid": 1269183002, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1991, "year_label": "1991 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – Several officials were killed in a mortar shelling in Kaaraan neighborhood of Mogadishu, including former minister Haji Muse Boqor, Sheikh Mohamed Faruur, Hashi Weheliye Moalim and Mohamed Said Gentleman.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1269183013#January", "title": "1991 in Somalia", "revid": 1269183013, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1993, "year_label": "1993 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – Attack on Pakistani military in Somalia: twenty-four Pakistani troops in the United Nations forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366430372#June", "title": "1993", "revid": 1366430372, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1993, "year_label": "1993 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 3", "text": "October 3–4– Battle of Mogadishu: The U.S. Army conducts Operation Gothic Serpent in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia, deploying Task Force Ranger. Two U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down and the operation leaves over 1,000 Somalis dead and over 74 Americans wounded in action, 18 killed and 1 captured.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366430372#October", "title": "1993", "revid": 1366430372, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2005, "year_label": "2005 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 - Yusuf Ahmed Sarinle, the police chief in the capital, Mogadishu, is shot dead. The new Somali government is slated to begin relocating from Kenya on February 1.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311389301#January", "title": "2005 in Somalia", "revid": 1311389301, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2008, "year_label": "2008 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "August 13", "text": "August 13 - a Fokker F27-500 cargo aircraft operated by Fly540. crashed about 20 km from the Namber Konton airport near Mogadishu, Somalia. All three crew members died. The aircraft was carrying a shipment of miraa (khat). The plane had departed from Wilson Airport in Nairobi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371399178#August", "title": "2008 in Kenya", "revid": 1371399178, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2011, "year_label": "2011 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 16", "text": "February 16 - South Korea will fly the bodies of eight Somali pirates killed in a commando raid on a freighter last month from Muscat to Mogadishu, Somalia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1266138751#February", "title": "2011 in Oman", "revid": 1266138751, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2017, "year_label": "2017 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – A massive blast caused by a truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 587 people and injures 316 others.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371948773#October", "title": "2017", "revid": 1371948773, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – A double car bombing by al-Shabaab in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 121 people and injures around 300.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#October", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › October"}}]}