It happened on this day, December 12
Events:
627 – The Battle of Nineveh took place and its result was the victory of the Byzantines, led by Emperor Heraclius, over the Sasanian Persians, led by Commander Rahzad.
975 – Al-Aziz Billah takes control of the Fatimid Caliphate after the death of Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah.
1089 – The “Maarat al-Numan Massacre” took place during the First Crusade, during which the Crusaders stormed the city and killed around 20,000 of its inhabitants.
1901 – Guglielmo Marconi makes the first transatlantic radio broadcast.
1924 – King Faisal I of Iraq ratifies the Iraqi-British treaty.
1925 – Reza Pahlavi overthrows Shah Ahmad Mirza Qajar, ends Qajar's rule over Persia, and installs himself as Shah.
1930 – The failure of the Khakas uprising in Spain and the execution of the rebellious officers.
1946 – The Arab League issues Resolution 142 rejecting the partition of Palestine. 1963 – Kenya declares independence.
1967 – The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen becomes a member of the Arab League.
1976 – Creation of the Kuwaiti Foundation for the Advancement of Science.
1979 – The Republic of Rhodesia changes its name to Zimbabwe.
1984 – Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya carries out a military coup in Mauritania, overthrowing President Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla and seizing power as his successor.
1990 – The Egyptian Satellite Channel, the first Arab satellite channel, begins broadcasting.
1996 – Uday, son of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, is the victim of an assassination attempt which seriously injures him. 2005 – Lebanese journalist and MP Gibran Tueni is assassinated by blowing up his car.
💥 The Lebanese government asks the Security Council to create an international tribunal to try those suspected of the assassination of Rafik Hariri.
2007 – The assassination of Brigadier General of the Lebanese Army, François Al-Hajj, during a bomb attack in Baabda.
2010 – Israeli authorities release the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Raed Salah, after he served a five-month prison sentence for assaulting an Israeli police officer.
2011 – The Tunisian National Council elects the leader of the Congress Party for the Republic, Moncef Marzouki, as President of the Republic, by a majority of 153 votes out of a total of 219.
2013 – Bangladeshi authorities execute the general secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh, Abdul Qadir Molla.
2015 – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia holds its third municipal elections, the first in which women were allowed to run in local elections.
💥 The Paris Climate Conference concludes its work with a historic international climate agreement.
2016 – Announcement that the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo won the Ballon d'Or awarded by France Football magazine to the best player in the world for the year 2016.
2018 – The withdrawal of confidence in British Prime Minister Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party failed after a vote by party members, by a majority of two hundred votes to 117.
2019 – Abdelmadjid Tebboune is elected president of Algeria, after obtaining 58.15% in the presidential elections.
💥 The Conservative Party, led by Boris Johnson, won an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons in the snap general election, allowing it to pass the plan to leave the European Union, while the Labor Party opposition suffered its worst defeat since the world. Second War.
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Births:
1745 – John Jay, American politician.
1766 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian historian and novelist.
1786 – William Marcy, American politician.
1791 – Marie Louise, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and Duchess of Parma.
1821 – Gustave Flaubert, French writer.
1863 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter.
1866 – Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913.
1875 – Gerd von Runstedt, German soldier.
1876 - Alvin Kranzlein, American track and field athlete.
1881 – Harry Warner, one of the founders of Warner Bros.
1884 – Zinaida Serebryakova, Russian painter.
1902 – Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter.
1912 – Saleh Jawdat, Egyptian poet.
** Fouad Jardak, Lebanese poet and journalist.
1914 – Walter Percy Gardner, British soldier and father of Princess Mona Al Hussein.
1915 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor.
1919 – Anwar Abdullah, Egyptian poet and author.
1920 – Fawzi Abdel Hafez, Egyptian soldier.
1923 – Bob Barker, American television presenter.
1925 – Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet.
1927 – Robert Noyce, American physicist and inventor.
1928 – Chingiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz writer.
1934 – Muhammad Al-Maghout, Syrian poet
1938 – Aida Al-Najjar, Palestinian-Jordanian writer, researcher and refugee.
1948 – Tom Wilkinson, English actor.
1949 – Bill Nye, English actor.
1952 – Helen Dunmore, British novelist and poet.
1958 – Magda Zaki, Egyptian actress.
1959 – Ola Ramy, Egyptian actress.
1962 – Ryuzo Ishino, Japanese voice actor.
1963 – Ai Orikasa, Japanese actress.
1964 – Sabu, American wrestler of Lebanese origin.
1970 – Shukran Murtaja, Syrian actress.
** Jennifer Connelly, American actress.
1972 – Wilson Kipketer, Danish runner.
** Mishari Al-Balam, Kuwaiti actor.
1974 – Nolberto Solano, Peruvian footballer.
1975 – Craig Moore, Australian rules footballer.
** Hoko Kuwashima, Japanese actress.
1977 – Safa Taj El-Din, Egyptian actress.
1981 – Stephen Warnock, English footballer.
** Pedro Rios, Spanish footballer.
1982 – Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player.
1984 – Daniel Agger, Danish footballer.
1990 – Victor Moses, English footballer.
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Death:
1574 – Sultan Selim II, Ottoman sultan.
1607 – Muhammad bin Abd al-Malik al-Baghdadi, Iraqi jurist, linguist and Hanafi teacher.
1897 – Amin Chmeil, Lebanese writer, lawyer, writer and journalist.
1904 – Major General Mahmoud Sami Al-Baroudi, Egyptian Prime Minister and poet.
1928 – Gregory IV Haddad, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and all the East.
1936 – Musa Al-Asami, Iraqi jurist, writer and poet.
1947 – Hoda Shaarawi, Egyptian activist in the areas of national independence and the feminist movement from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.
2003- Fadwa Tuqan, Palestinian poet and writer.
Heydar Aliyev, third president of Azerbaijan.
2005 – Gibran Tueni, Lebanese journalist and politician.
2007 – François Al-Hajj, Lebanese soldier.
2008 – Tassos Papadopoulos, 5th president of Cyprus.
2011 – Ahmed Sami Abdullah, Egyptian actor.
2013 – Abdul Qadir Mulla, general secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami of Bangladesh.
2020 – Omar Khashram, Palestinian-Jordanian journalist, host and correspondent.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ National holiday in Kenya.
⏪ Constitution Day in Russia.
⏪ Kanji Day in Japan.
