Key events in Six-Day War of 1967:

- May: Egypt sends troops into Sinai Peninsula, removes U.N. 
peacekeepers there and closes Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. 
Jordan joins Egypt-Syria alliance against Israel, while Iraq and 
other Arab states offer small military forces. Israel mobilizes reserves.

- June 5: In dramatic strike that decides course of the war, Israeli 
warplanes destroy 400 aircraft of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, most 
of them sitting on tarmac. Three Israeli army divisions attack seven 
Egyptian divisions in Sinai Peninsula. Israel urges Jordan to stay 
out of fight, but Jordanian troops open fire along armistice line, 
and Israel counterattacks.

- June 7: Israeli soldiers capture Jerusalem's Old City, including 
shrines sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and take control 
of entire West Bank. Jordan accepts cease-fire.

- June 8: Israel completes capture of Sinai Peninsula; 
	Egypt accepts cease-fire.

- June 9: Israeli forces attack Syrian positions on strategic 
Golan Heights, from where Syrian artillery shelled Israeli farm 
villages before war's outbreak.

- June 10: Israeli troops occupy Syrian town of Kuneitra, and Syria accepts cease-fire. 

	War ends with Israeli casualties of 679 dead, 2,563 wounded; 
	Arab toll of approximately 21,000 dead, 45,000 wounded.

By The Associated Press