On this day 54 years ago, Two would-be hijackers were killed by security personal abroad an Ethiopia Airlines Boeing 707 shortly after take off from Madrid. No one else was hurt.

Dec 12, 1913: Menelik II, the Emperor of Ethiopia since 1889, died at the age of 69.

Dec 12, 1969: Two would-be hijackers were killed by security personal abroad an Ethiopia Airlines Boeing 707 shortly after take off from Madrid. No one else was hurt.

Dec 12, 2000: The Algiers Agreement, a peace agreement between the governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia, was signed at Algiers, Algeria, to formally end the Eritrean-Ethiopian War,