It happened on this day, January 20
Events:
1523 – Christian II is forced to abdicate his throne as king of Denmark and Norway.
1872 – French forces in Algeria arrest mujahid Ahmed Boumerzak after leading a revolution against French occupation, then sentence him to death.
1938 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulfikar, known as Queen Farida.
1941 – Italian occupation of Eritrea begins.
1944 – The British Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin during World War II.
(1945–American President Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected as president for a fourth presidential term. He is the only president to have served three full presidential terms and to begin a fourth term
1953 – Dwight Eisenhower becomes President of the United States.
1961 – John Kennedy becomes President of the United States.
1962 – The Emir of the State of Kuwait, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, opens the first session of the elected Constituent Assembly, charged with drafting a constitution for the state.
1969 – Richard Nixon becomes President of the United States.
1970 – An earthquake in Hokkaido, Japan, measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale, kills one person, injures 38 and causes minor property damage.
1977 – Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States.
1981 – Iran releases US embassy hostages after 444 days of detention, on the day of President Ronald Reagan's inauguration as President of the United States.
💥 Ronald Reagan assumes the presidency of the United States.
1983 – Formation of an extremist movement in Israel and the United States whose mission is to rebuild the Temple Mount on the site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the name Keren Harhabit.
1987 – The Anglican Church of Great Britain announces the kidnapping of its envoy to Beirut, Terry White.
1989 – George HW Bush becomes President of the United States.
1993 – A secret meeting took place between the head of the economic department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ahmed Qurei, and Israeli researcher Yair Hirschfeld, in Norway, as part of a series of secret meetings that led at the signing of the Oslo Accord. Chords.
💥 Bill Clinton assumes the presidency of the United States.
1996 – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat is elected president of the Palestinian National Authority.
2001 – A popular revolution in the Philippines overthrows President Joseph Estrada and leads to his imprisonment.
💥 George W. Bush assumes the presidency of the United States.
2006 – Two earthquakes occur in Indonesia, the first measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale and the second measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale.
2007 – Senator Hillary Clinton announces her intention to run in the 2008 United States presidential elections as a representative of the Democratic Party.
2009 – Barack Obama becomes President of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the office. 2015 – Houthis take control of the Presidential House and Republican Palace in Sanaa, Yemen.
2016 – Scientists at the California Institute of Technology announce that they have discovered evidence of the existence of a hypothetical ninth planet within the solar system with a mass approximately ten times that of Earth.
💥 A gunman opens fire on students and employees at Bacha Khan University in Pakistan, killing more than 20 people.
2017 – Outgoing Ghanaian President Yahya Jammeh decides to leave the country and hand over power to President-elect Adama Barrow, peacefully ending the military intervention in Gambia.
💥 The end of the presidency of Barack Obama and his vice-president, Joe Biden, and the inauguration of Donald Trump and Mike Pence as president and vice-president of the United States, respectively.
2018 – The US federal government was suspended after the US Senate failed to pass a temporary funding bill.
💥 The Turkish government announces the launch of military operation Olive Branch in Afrin against the Syrian Democratic Forces.
2019 – The Arab Economic Summit was held in Beirut.
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Births:
1029 – Alp Arslan, Seljuk sultan.
1775 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician.
1868 – Muhammad Farid, Egyptian ruler.
1873 – Johannes Wilhelm Jensen, Danish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1944.
1877 – Ahmed Muharram, Egyptian poet.
1899 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese inventor who invents the first television in Japan.
1900 – Colin Clive, British actor.
1910 – Sultana Youssef, Iraqi singer.
** Allal El Fassi, Moroccan politician.
1914 – Mufida Abdel Rahman, Egyptian lawyer, first woman in the Arab world to practice law.
1920 Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, reciter of the Holy Quran
1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut.
1931 – David Lee, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996.
1934 – Louay Kayali, Syrian visual artist.
1939 – Abdullah Ensour, Prime Minister of Jordan.
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** Muhammad Jaber, Kuwaiti actor.
1946 – David Lynch, American actor.
1961 – Mahmoud Abdel Ghaffar, Egyptian actor.
1973 – Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant, wife of Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium, Duke of Brabant.
1979 – Ahmed Issa, Egyptian author.
1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer.
1983 – Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer and actress.
1985 – Marina Inoue, Japanese actress.
1986 – Ibrahim Shehab, Kuwaiti footballer.
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Death:
820 – Imam Al-Shafi'i, founder of the Shafi'i school of thought.
1156 – Henrik, Anglo-Finnish saint and bishop.
1612 – Emperor Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1936 – King George V, king of the United Kingdom.
1983 – Garincha, Brazilian footballer.
1988 Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Afghan politician.
** Jalal al-Din al-Hamamsy, Egyptian journalist.
1992 – Muhammad Abdel Khaleq Hassouna, second secretary general of the League of Arab States.
1993 – Audrey Hepburn, British actress.
1994 – Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager.
2008 – Souad Makkawi, Egyptian singer.
2009 – Hussein Ali Mahfouz, Iraqi writer and historian.
2011 – Reynolds Price, American writer and poet.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Presidential Inauguration Day in the United States of America (every four years)
