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8 December
Tuesday Hijri 28 Jumada al-Akhirah 1448 AH
By the Gregorian calendar 8 December
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192412 December
First issue of Umm al-Qura newspaper published in Mecca
On 12 December 1924 the first issue of Umm al-Qura appeared in Mecca. Founded by King Abdulaziz, it had Yusuf Yassin as its first editor-in-chief and ran the headline "The Makkah Declaration". It is still published from Mecca as Saudi Arabia's official gazette.