Sir Lee Stack, the British governor general of Sudan and commander of the Egyptian army, is assassinated in Cairo on November 19, 1924.

The assassination is one of a series of killings of British officials that had begun in 1920.

High Commissioner Sir Edmind Allenby, who had considered Stack an old and trusted friend, is determined to avenge the crime and in the process humiliate the Wafd and destroy its credibility in Egypt.