Video: 'Israel Invades Egypt - Britain Acts (1956)'

(Monday, October 29, 1956, at about 3:00 p.m. EET; during the Suez Crisis) — Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula today and pushed Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.

Video: '29th October 1956: Israel invades Egypt in the Suez Crisis'

The aims of the invasion (the United Kingdom and France followed Israel on Nov. 5, 1956) were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser from power.

Video: 'The Other Side of Suez (BBC Documentary)' (Oct. 29, 1956, at 36:04)