Saudi National Day - in pictures
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King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia. SPA -
Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd, visits Basrah in modern-day Iraq in November 1916. SPA -
King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia. SPA -
Numerous heads of state attend the funeral ceremonies of Saudi King Faysal in 1975. Among them, his successor King Khaled, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat, President of the Republic of Egypt Anwar al Sadat, Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, and President of Syria Hafez El Assad. Photo: Sygma via Getty Images -
Queen Elizabeth II with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia travelling along Whitehall for a military pageant by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, London, 10th May 1967. Photo: Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images -
Founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdelaziz, speaks to the general manager of Aramco, N. Devins, during the opening ceremony of the Riyadh-Dammam train link in October 1951 in Riyadh. Photo: AFP -
King Abdulaziz's raiders on their way to recapture Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1910. Photo: Getty Images -
A street scene shows the Saudi capital city of Riyadh in 1937. Photo: AFP -
President of the United Arab Republic Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Saudi King Faysal, sign an agreement on a peace plan to end the three year civil war in the Yemen in King Faysal palace in Jeddah 24 August 1965. Photo: AFP -
A 1987 meeting in Oman of Emir of Bahrain Sheikh Isa II bin Salman II Al Khalifa, Oman's Sultan Qaboos, Kuwait Emir Jaber Al Ahmad, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Saudi Arabia’s Fahd bin Abdulaziz, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Emir of Qatar Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad. Photo: AFP -
Saudi Arabia King Saud ibn Abdalaziz jokes during a meeting in 1953 in Riyadh. He succeeded his father, King Ibn Saud, in November 1953 but in March 1958 he bowed to pressure from the royal family and conferred full powers to Crown Prince Faisal ibn Abdalaziz and abdicated in November 1964. He died in February 1969. Photo AFP -
American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, chief of staff William D. Leahy and Col William A Eddy, minister to Saudi Arabia, aboard a United States warship on February 20, 1945. Photo: Getty Images -
An Arabian-American Oil Company drilling rig at Rub' al Khali in the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, circa 1955. The Arabian-American Oil Company became known as Aramco and then Saudi Aramco. Photo: Getty Images -
King Fahd with the future King Salman attending a graduation ceremony in 1967. SPA -
Queen Elizabeth II greets Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, during a private audience at Buckingham Palace on March 7, 2018 in London. Photo: Getty Images
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