It happened on this day, December 17
Events:
1267 AD – Friday prayers were first held at the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo during the reign of Sultan Al-Zahir Baybars.
1903 – Successful first attempt at powered flight by the Wright brothers.
1913 – Amin Al-Rafi'i publishes the newspaper “Al-Akhbar” in Egypt.
1942 – The United Kingdom condemns the Nazi massacres of Jews.
1951 – Start of Habib Bourguiba's revolution in Tunisia for independence.
1979 – The first opponent of the Saudi government, “Nasser Al-Saeed”, is kidnapped by Palestinian intelligence services in Lebanon.
1982 – Opening of the “Islamic Center” in Tokyo.
1983 – An IRA operation inside Harrods department store in London results in the deaths of ten people.
1992 – 415 leaders of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine are deported to Marj al-Zuhur in southern Lebanon.
⭐ Bosniaks begin work on digging a tunnel that passes under Sarajevo airport to save them from the siege of their capital by Serbian forces.
1996 – 14 members of the left-wing rebel movement “Tupac Amaru”, disguised as waiters and servants, infiltrate the home of the Japanese ambassador in the Peruvian capital, Lima, while they are celebrating his birthday. They take 490 hostages. This crisis lasts 4 months. ending with the house being stormed by force.
2003 – French President Jacques Chirac announced in a speech his acceptance of an official report recommending that children not be allowed to wear religious symbols such as crosses, Islamic hijabs and Jewish skull caps.
2008 – The US Federal Reserve reduces interest rates by 1% to a level ranging from zero to 0.25%, in an attempt to cope with the recession that the United States is going through.
2010 – The young Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire in front of the state headquarters of Sidi Bouzid, after the municipal authorities of the town of Sidi Bouzid confiscated a cart on which he was selling vegetables and fruits, denouncing refusal to accept. a complaint he wanted to make against police officer Fadia Hamdi, who had slapped him. This incident led to the outbreak of the Tunisian revolution against the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
2013 – Angela Merkel is reappointed Chancellor of the German Federation, beginning her third consecutive term since 2005.
2014 – The United States and Cuba agree to repair relations after nearly 50 years of rupture.
⭐ The American magazine Time chooses the Ebola fighters as Personality of the Year, and for its part, the British Economist chooses Tunisia for its success in its democratic transition.
2016: A bomb attack took place in the Turkish city of Kayseri, killing 14 soldiers and injuring 55 others.
2017 – Sebastián Piñera is elected president of Chile for the second time.
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Births:
1491 – Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman Al-Alqami, Egyptian jurist, interpreter, hadith scholar and teacher.
1837 – Muhammad Hadi Al-Tehrani, Iranian Muslim jurist, author and professor of religion.
1842 – Sophus Lee, Norwegian mathematician.
1886 – Nabawiya Musa, pioneer of the girls' education movement in Egypt.
1901 – Aziza Amir, Egyptian actress.
1908 – Willard Libby, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.
1930 – Princess Fathia, daughter of Fouad I, king of Egypt.
1969 – Yuri Morakadi, Lebanese singer and actor.
1975 – Rasha Mostafa, Egyptian actress working in Kuwait.
1977 – Tariq Al-Kandari, Kuwaiti actor and host.
1987 – Ghalia Al-Kashef, Syrian actress working in Kuwait.
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Death:
1273 – Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, Sufi writer, jurist, theoretician and jurist.
1830 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan revolutionary and political leader to whom several South American republics owe their independence from Spanish domination.
1847 – Marie Louise, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and Duchess of Parma.
1956 – Ali Al-Jishi, Saudi jurist, sharia judge and poet.
1979 – Awad Dokhi, Kuwaiti singer.
1989 – George Shehadeh, Lebanese poet and playwright who wrote his works in French.
1990 – Ishaq Musa Al-Husseini, Palestinian writer.
2004 – Agnes Marie Mansour, American Catholic nun of Lebanese origin.
2009 – Amin Al-Hafez, Syrian president.
2010 – Yahya Saadeh, Lebanese director.
2011 – Kim Jong Il, leader of North Korea.
2012 – Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Sabil, Saudi muezzin.
2014 – Mohamed El Bastawi, Moroccan actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ National holiday in Bhutan.
⏪ Session day in Bahrain.
⏪ Wright Brothers Day in the United States.
⏪ Kurdistan Flag Day.
