It happened on this day, May 6
events:
604 – Shotoku Taishi writes the “Seventeen Paragraph Constitution”.
636 – Muslims enter the city of Baalbek after making peace between its people and Muslim leaders Abu Ubaida bin Al-Jarrah and Khaled bin Al-Walid.
1590 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi besieges Odawara Castle.
1794 – Black leader François-Dominique Toussany-Lotaire Faure leads slaves in Haiti to revolt against French rule.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower opens to the public.
1910 – George V takes power in the United Kingdom after the death of his father, King Edward VII.
1913 – The withdrawal of Ottoman Empire forces from Al-Ahsa begins and the city of Al-Hofuf enters under the rule of King Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia.
1916 – Jamal Pasha executes 21 Syrian patriots demanding independence or reform at Burj Square in Beirut and Marjeh Square in Damascus.
1936 – King Farouk returns to Egypt from England after becoming king.
1937 – The German airship “Hindenburg” explodes in mid-air before landing in New York.
1941 – Joseph Stalin appoints himself Prime Minister of the Soviet Union to combine his state presidency with his premiership in light of World War II, which the Soviet Union was forced to fight after the shift of forces from Nazi Germany to the Soviet border.
1946 – The Soviet Union evacuates Iran.
1957 – Completion of the first nuclear reactor in Tokaimura, Japan.
1976 – Unification of the UAE Armed Forces into a single force as the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces.
✴️ Earthquake hits northern Italy, killing 9,200 people.
1994 – Inauguration of the hydrographic tunnel under the Channel, linking the United Kingdom to France.
2004 – Four Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor are sentenced to death by firing squad in Libya, accused of infecting 400 Libyan children with AIDS.
2007 – Nicolas Sarkozy wins the French presidential elections against his rival Ségolène Royal and thus succeeds Jacques Chirac as President of the French Republic.
2010 – Elections are held in the United Kingdom, considered among the most competitive since 1992, with intense competition between the ruling Labor Party led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the Conservative Party led by David Cameron, and the Liberal Democrats directed by Nick Clegg.
✴️ Nigeria's interim president, Goodluck Jonathan, is sworn in as the country's president, succeeding President Umaru Yar'Adua, who died last night.
2012 – François Hollande is elected president of France after defeating his rival, incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy, in the second round of the presidential election.
2015 – Tunisian Shukri Al-Mabkhout wins the International Prize for Arab Fiction for his novel “Les Taliani”.
2018 – The alliance of the Amal Movement and Hezbollah leads the Lebanese legislative elections.
✴️ The Ennahdha movement leads the Tunisian municipal elections.
2019 – Announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after approximately 4 days of mutual missile bombardments, which resulted in the death of approximately 31 people and the injury of approximately 290 others.
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Births:
1574 – Pope Innocent X, pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer.
1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist.
1871 – Victor Grignard, French chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912.
1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor.
1904 – Harry Martensson, Swedish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1974.
1918 – Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, first president of the United Arab Emirates.
1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2003.
1931 – Magda, Egyptian actress.
1937 – Rubin Carter, American boxer.
1950 – Ibrahim Yousry, Egyptian actor.
1953 – Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
** Graeme Souness, Scottish football player and manager.
** Omar Perez Santiago, Chilean writer and journalist.
1961 – George Clooney, American actor.
1980 – Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian footballer.
1982 – Dilshud Nazarov, Tajik hammer thrower.
1983 – Daniel Alves, Brazilian footballer.
1984 – Shawq, Kuwaiti actress. Fawzi Bashir, Omani footballer.
1985 – Abdullah Al-Khader, Kuwaiti actor.
1986 – Maitre James, French rapper of Congolese origin.
** Marouane da Costa, Moroccan footballer.
1989 – Dominika Cibulkova, Slovak tennis player.
1992 – Byun Baek-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actor.
1994 – Mateo Kovačić, Croatian footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Croatian national team.
2019 – Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, son of Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
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Death:
680 – Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan, first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty.
1164 – Muhammad bin Al-Hussein Al-Zagholi, Khorasani jurist, hadith specialist, interpreter and linguist.
1727 – Empress Catherine I, sixth Empress of Russia in the Russian Empire.
1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German explorer.
1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American author.
1902 – Bret Harte, American writer and poet.
1910 – King Edward VII, king of the United Kingdom.
1919 – Lyman Frank Baum, American writer.
1933 – Li Zinun, Chinese physician and centenarian who lived to be 260 years old.
1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911.
1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator and philosopher.
1990 – Rawhiya Khaled, Egyptian actress.
1992 – Marlene Dietrich, American-German singer and actress.
1996 – Mohamed El-Sharqawi, Egyptian actor.
2002 – Saleh Selim, Egyptian footballer and actor. Zahira Abdeen, Egyptian doctor.
2016 – Radhi Mahdi Al-Saeed, Iraqi poet.
2017 – Najah Hafeez, Syrian actress.
2018 – Jamal Naji, Jordanian writer.
2020 – Muhammad Rashid Al-Jaabari, Palestinian politician and educator.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️World No Diet Day.
◀️ Martyrs' Day in Lebanon and Syria.
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