It happened on this day, January 10
Events:
49 BC – Julius Caesar and his army cross the Rubicon River at the start of the civil war in Rome.
630 AD – Conquest of Mecca by Muslims led by the Prophet Muhammad.
1863 – Work begins in London on the world's first subway.
1920 – The first meeting of the League of Nations takes place and at this meeting the Treaty of Versailles is approved, ending the First World War.
1922 – Arthur Griffiths is appointed first president of independent Ireland.
1923 – Lithuania occupies the Memel region (now Klapedia) after it had been under French administration since 1920.
1943 – Habib Bourguiba meets Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini at the Alespigi Palace after German forces free him following his arrest in France.
1946 – The United Nations holds its first General Assembly in London attended by representatives from 51 countries, after the League of Nations was officially abolished due to its failure to prevent the outbreak of World War II.
1948 – Muhammad Idris al-Senussi creates the “National Barqawi Conference”, led by Muhammad al-Rida al-Senussi, to pave the way for the declaration of Cyrenaica's independence.
1949 – Start of the Chinese revolution led by Mao Zedong.
1973 – Palestinian activist Mahmoud Al-Hamshari dies from injuries following an assassination attempt by Israeli intelligence services in Paris.
1984 – The United States and the Vatican resume diplomatic relations.
1989 – The evacuation of Cuban forces from Angola begins.
2000 – America Online announces plans to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, believed to be the world's largest business transaction.
2001 – Wikipedia starts as part of the Nupedia project, becoming independent after five days.
2005 – A new website broadcasts Jewish prayer from Al-Buraq Square live and prayer by correspondence.
2006 – Opening of the 25th African Cup of Nations organized in Egypt.
2017 – The number of deaths on the European continent reached more than 20 people due to the severe cold wave that has hit the continent since the beginning of this month.
2019 – The Venezuelan National Assembly invalidates the results of the presidential elections held in May 2018, which led to the victory of Nicolas Maduro, and assigns presidential functions to Juan Guaido, which plunges the country into a political crisis.
💥 Félix Tshisekedi wins the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2020 – Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the ninth sultan in the history of Oman, died at the age of 80, and his cousin Haitham bin Tariq took power as his successor.
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Births:
1729 – Lazzaro Spallanceni, Italian biologist.
1815 – John Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada.
1835 – Fukuzawa Yukichi, Japanese writer.
1902 – Muhammad Reda Faraj Allah, Iraqi jurist, writer and poet.
1909 – Francesc Ferrer, Catalan anarchist.
1912 – Mahmoud Hafez, Egyptian entomologist.
**Maria Mandl – an Austrian prison guard who was famous for her cruelty towards prisoners during World War II and was executed.
1916 – Sonny Bergström, Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1982.
1918 – Hassiba Rochdi, Tunisian actress and singer.
1930 – Othman bin Sayyar, Saudi poet.
1935 – Riyad Shahrour, Syrian actor.
1936 – Robert Wilson, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
1947 – Afif Chia, Lebanese actor.
** Mervat Badawi, Egyptian economist.
1956 – Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish novelist.
1958 – Samira Said, Moroccan singer. ** Reem Saadeh, Jordanian actress.
1959 – Bakr Al Shadi, Saudi actor.
** Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al Thani, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar.
1969 – Abeer Adel, Egyptian actress.
1973 – Ryan Drummond, American voice actor.
1974 – Issa Al-Kubaisi, Qatari singer.
** Steve Marlet, French footballer.
** Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor.
1976 – Ahmed Saeed Abdel Ghani, Egyptian actor.
1978 – Kanako Mitsahoshi, Japanese actress.
1980 – Nelson Cuevas, Paraguayan footballer.
1982 – Alaa Hussein, Iraqi actress.
1985 – Badr Al-Mutawa, Kuwaiti footballer.
1987 – Muhammad Al-Sahlawi, Saudi footballer.
1993 – Jihan Mamlouk, Syrian basketball player.
1996 – Paula Andrea Pérez, Colombian tennis player.
1998 – Xu Shilin, Chinese tennis player.
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Death:
1094 – Ma'ad al-Mustansir Billah, eighth Fatimid caliph and eighteenth imam in the line of Shiite Ismaili imams.
1754 – Edward Cave, an English printer who first proposed the idea of a magazine.
1778 – Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist.
1862 – Samuel Colt, American inventor.
1951 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.
1957 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean diplomat and poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945.
1973 – Mahmoud Al-Hamshari, Palestinian politician and diplomat, dies in Paris from injuries he suffered after the Israeli Mossad assassination attempt in Paris.
1984 – Betty Green, American journalist and actress.
1986 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984.
1987 – Muayyad Ibrahim al-Irani, Palestinian poet and translator.
1997 – Alexander Todd, Scottish chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1957.
2008 – Abbas Al-Tarjuman, Iraqi-Iranian poet, translator and university professor.
2009 – Mahmoud Amin Al-Alam, Egyptian thinker.
2011 – Bora Kostic, Serbian footballer.
2016 – David Bowie, British rock singer.
2020 – Qaboos bin Said, the ninth Sultan of the Sultanate of Oman.
2021 – Hadi Al-Jayar, Egyptian actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Police Day in Japan.
