Lebanese president-elect Élias Sarkis is not inaugurated…
September 1976 CE
Lebanese president-elect Élias Sarkis is not inaugurated until September 23, by which time Lebanon has effectively been partitioned along the "Green Line," which passes through the center of Beirut (east-west) and along the main road to Damascus; to the north is a Christian government, to the south a leftist (Druze-Muslim-Palestinian) government led by Kamal Jumblatt.