Short answers, pulled from the story.
Tel Aviv was officially established on the 11th of April 1909 when sixty-six Jewish families gathered to parcel out land by lottery. Akiva Aryeh Weiss organized this event using 120 sea shells to distribute plots among the new residents.
The town changed its name to Tel Aviv in May 1910 following Nahum Sokolow's translation of Theodor Herzl's novel Altneuland. This renaming occurred within a year of the initial establishment and replaced the original name Ahuzat Bayit.
More than 5,000 Modernist-style buildings inspired by the Bauhaus school and Le Corbusier form the White City designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003. German Jewish architects trained at the Bauhaus arrived in Palestine during the 1930s to create what is recognized as the largest concentration of International Style buildings globally.
Tel Aviv became an independent municipality on the 4th of October 1949 when it was voted upon by the government. The unified city was officially renamed Tel Aviv-Yafo in August 1950 after annexing parts of Jaffa including Abu Kabir and Salama.
A suicide bomber exploded at the entrance to the Dolphinarium discothèque killing 21 mostly teenagers and injuring 132 during the Second Intifada. This attack occurred on the 1st of June 2001 and targeted young civilians in the city.