| | | Key dates in the history of Jordan's King Hussein
1935:1 Hussein born in Amman on Nov. 14 to Prince Talal bin Abdullah and Princess Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil.
1951: Hussein witnesses assassination of his grandfather, King Abdullah, in Jerusalem by a Palestinian nationalist angered by Jordan's annexation of the West Bank.
1952: Hussein proclaimed king after father abdicates because of mental illness.
1956: Hussein survives coup attempt by senior army officials loyal to Egyptian Arab nationalist.
1967: Hussein loses West Bank and Jerusalem to Israel during the Six Day War.
1970: Jordan army troops loyal to Hussein put down a revolt by Palestinian guerrillas, who had become a state-within-a-state in Jordan and demanded the King's ouster.
1988: Hussein renounces rights to the West Bank but retains role as guardian of Jerusalem's Muslim holy places, the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque.
1990-91: Hussein upsets ties with West by remaining neutral in the Gulf War because of his country's economic ties to Iraq.
1994: Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
1998: The king has his second battle with cancer. He had surgery on a cancerous kidney in 1992, and in the summer of 1998 began six months of chemotherapy of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
1999: Hussein returned to Jordan in mid-January but was ordered back to the U.S. by doctors for more treatment a week later. Changes line of succession, naming his son, Abdullah as crown prince to replace his brother, Hassan.
Feb.2, 1999: Hussein has bone marrow transplant at the Mayo Clinic.
Feb.4, 1999: Doctors say the transplant operation has failed, Hussein flies back home to Jordan.
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