It happened on this day, January 14
Events:
1301 – The reign of the Arpad dynasty ends with the death of Andrew III, King of Hungary.
1401 – Tamerlane begins the siege of the citadel of Damascus, whose garrison refuses to surrender after the rest of the city falls.
1539 – Spain declares control over the island of Cuba.
1724 – Philip V, King of Spain, abdicates the throne.
1794 – American surgeon Jesse Bennett successfully performs the first cesarean section in America.
1814 – Denmark separates from Norway.
1858 – Napoleon III survived an assassination attempt.
1911 – The Palestine newspaper is created in Jaffa by its owners and editors, Issa Daoud Al-Issa and Youssef Al-Issa. It is a political news journal published twice a week.
1929 – King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan abdicates the throne.
1935 – The oil pipeline connecting the city of Mosul in Iraq to the port of Haifa in Palestine begins operation.
1948 – The Haganah concluded an arms contract with Czechoslovakia worth $1.2 million, which included the supply of 24,500 rifles, five thousand heavy machine guns, 200 medium machine guns, 54 million bullets and 25 Mezer Schmidt planes. These weapons arrived towards the end of the year. the British mandate over Palestine.
1952 – Re-election of Josip Broz Tito as President of the Yugoslav Republic.
1956 – The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan announces its refusal to join the Baghdad Pact, led by the United Kingdom and including Iraq, Turkey and Pakistan.
1958 – The Netherlands opens its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, becoming the first country to open its embassy in the city.
1972 – Princess Margaret ascends the Danish throne as Margaret II, following the death of her father, King Frederick IX.
1980 – The United Nations General Assembly votes in favor of a resolution demanding the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan.
💥 Formation of a new government in Syria led by Abdul Raouf Al-Kasem, succeeding Muhammad Ali Al-Halabi.
1985 – The Israeli Cabinet approves a plan to withdraw from southern Lebanon in 3 stages.
1991 – A Palestinian gunman from the Fatah movement/Revolutionary Council led by Sabri al-Banna/Abu Nidal assassinated three leaders of the Fatah movement, namely the second man and head of security and intelligence of the movement, Salah Khalaf/Abu Iyad, and members. of the movement, Hail Abdel Hamid and Fakhri al-Omari.
1996 – Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal.
1997 – Signing of the Hebron Accord between the Palestinian National Authority and Israel in Erez, northern Gaza Strip, including the division of the Palestinian city of Hebron between the two parties and the redeployment of Israeli forces in certain Palestinian areas.
1999 – The U.S. Senate begins the trial of President Bill Clinton in what is known as the Monica Gate scandal.
2000 – The Union of Arab Writers announces its selection of the 100 best Arab novels of the 20th century.
2005 – The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan.
2010 – An Iraqi court sentences 11 Iraqis to death for planning and carrying out the Baghdad bombings on August 19, 2009.
2011 – Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announces his temporary takeover due to the inability of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to carry out his duties after leaving Tunisia following the outbreak of a revolution against his regime.
2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant asserts control of the entire city of Raqqa for the first time, after days of heavy fighting with Syrian opposition factions who were forced to withdraw from the city.
2015 – Italian President Giorgio Napolitano resigns from office.
2016 – The Lebanese Military Court of Cassation decided to release former minister Michel Samaha in exchange for bail of 150 million lire, on condition that he undertakes to attend all its hearings.
💥 8 people have been killed in a series of attacks in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and ISIS claims responsibility for the attacks.
💥 The World Health Organization announces the end of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, after it caused more than 11,000 deaths.
2017 – Around 25 people drowned after a boat capsized in the Ganges River in the Indian city of Patna.
2020 – Microsoft announces the end of support for the Windows 7 operating system, ten years after its launch.
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Births:
1847 – Charles René Zeller, French botanist.
1861 – Mehmed VI, the last Ottoman sultan
1905 – Takeo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan.
1919 – Giulio Andreotti, Italian Prime Minister.
1925 – Ernst Stojasbal, Austrian footballer.
1934 – Mohammed Al-Arousi, Moroccan singer.
1938 – Morihiro Hosokawa, Prime Minister of Japan.
1941 – Faye Dunaway, American actress.
1943 – Ralph Steinman, Canadian immunologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2011.
1944 – Mohamed Negm, Egyptian actor.
1947 – Sabry Abdel Moneim, Egyptian actor.
1966 – Hana Nassour, Syrian actress.
1967 – Emily Watson, English actress.
** Hassan Hattab, Emir of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat in Algeria.
1969 – Jason Bateman, American actor.
1971: Antonios Nicopolidis, Greek footballer.
1973 – Enas Mekki, Algerian actress working in Egypt.
1977 – Nasser Al-Othman, Kuwaiti footballer.
1978 – Silvia Talaia, Croatian tennis player.
1981 – Borja Fernández, Spanish footballer.
1982 – Victor Valdez, Spanish football goalkeeper.
1986 – Yohan Cabaye, French footballer. ** Muhammad Al-Hamli, Kuwaiti actor.
1994 – Kai, Korean singer.
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Death:
1301 – Death of Andrew III, King of Hungary, and end of the reign of the Arpad dynasty.
1421 – Al-Muayyad Abu Al-Nasr, Sheikh Al-Mahmoudi, one of the sultans of the Mamluk state in Egypt and the Levant.
1867 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter.
1905 – Ernst Karl App, German physicist.
1916 – Alexandre Eléazar, Ottoman Lebanese writer, journalist and poet.
1957 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor.
1972 – Frederick IX, King of Denmark.
1977 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1978 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician.
1980 – Tadao Nagahama, Japanese director and author.
1984 – Saad Haddad, Lebanese soldier and founder of the South Lebanon Army.
1991 – Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad), member of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement.
2006 – Shelley Winters, American actress.
2007 – Ahmed Mohamed Aouf, Egyptian pharmacist, writer and veteran Wikipedian.
2016 – Alan Rickman, British actor.
2017 – Zhou Yuguang, linguist and inventor of the Pinyin romanization system for Chinese writing
2021 – Safwat Al-Sharif, Egyptian politician.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪Anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution.
⏪ Pongal, the harvest festival in South India.
