It happened on this day, May 12
events:
1641 – Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand.
1881 – The Tunisian sovereign, Muhammad al-Sadiq Bey, signs the Treaty of Bardo, which gives France the right to financial, military and external supervision in Tunisia.
1894 – Japanese forces invade Korea.
1908 – Opening of the Egyptian School of Fine Arts in Cairo, and Mahmoud Mukhtar was the first to enroll there.
1912 – The first issue of the Russian newspaper Pravda is published.
1919 – Egyptian leader Saad Zaghloul sends a note of protest to the peace conference held in Paris after World War I due to the conference's recognition of British protection over Egypt and the retention of Arab countries under British protection and French.
1937 – Massive protests break out in Najaf and Diwaniya against the Iraqi government, which responds to the protests by bombing towns and villages with planes, killing more than three hundred people in less than two weeks.
✴️ The coronation of King George VI as king to the British throne.
1939 – The Battle of Khalkhin Gol took place between Japanese and Soviet forces on the Manchukuo-Mongolia border during World War II.
1947 – Declaration of independence of Mongolia.
1949 – Announcement of the West German Constitution.
1951 – The United States tests a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean.
1956 – Jewish extremists in Algeria commit a brutal massacre against defenseless citizens in the city of Constantine with the help of the French.
1965 – West Germany signs a memorandum of understanding to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
1984 – Japan Broadcasting Corporation satellite broadcasts begin, the Ogasawara Islands can receive a clear picture.
1997 – Russia and Chechen fighters sign a peace agreement, the first of its kind in more than four hundred years of bloody conflict between Chechen Muslims and Russians, who consider Chechnya one of the regions of the Russian Federation.
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter visits Cuba for 5 days, becoming the first US president to visit Cuba after President Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.
2008 – An earthquake hits the Chinese province of Sichuan with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale.
2010 – Kuwait's National Assembly gives final approval to the privatization bill, which allows the sale of state-owned companies. The law excludes the oil and natural gas production, oil refineries, health and education sectors, and allows the sale of state-owned companies. The government must hold a stake of no more than 20% in companies being privatized.
✴️ An Airbus A330 plane belonging to Libyan African Airlines, coming from Johannesburg, crashed in Tripoli, killing 103 people, and only an eight-year-old Dutch child survived the accident.
2015 – A second earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 hits Nepal and parts of China, India and Bangladesh, followed thirty minutes later by another with a magnitude of 6.3, two weeks after the first earthquake.
2016 – The Brazilian National Assembly votes by a majority of its members to dismiss President Dilma Rousseff after she was accused of corruption, and Vice President Michel Temer assumes the presidency, becoming the first person in the Arab world. (Lebanese) to occupy this position in Brazil.
2017 – New French President Emmanuel Macron appoints Edouard Philippe as Prime Minister, and the latter announces the formation of his new government.
✴️ A ransomware cyberattack has damaged more than 230,000 electronic devices worldwide.
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Births:
1496 – King Gustav I, king of Sweden.
1803 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist.
1820 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse and pioneer of modern nursing.
1845 – Gabriel Fauré, French musician.
1895 – William Geock, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1949.
1897 – Gholam Reza Rouhani, Iranian poet.
1907 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress.
1910 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1910.
1964. Abdel Halim Mahmoud, Sheikh of Al-Azhar.
1939 – Jalal Dabbagh, Iraqi Kurdish politician and journalist.
1943 – Paolo Casarin, Italian football referee.
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1954 – Afaf Rady, Egyptian singer and actress.
1966 – Stephen Baldwin, American actor.
1971 – Fawzi Sadiq, Saudi novelist, short story writer and journalist.
1974 – Taraneh Janbakht, Iranian writer.
1976 – Cardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper.
1977 – Raya Abi Rashid, Lebanese presenter.
1978 – Jason Biggs, American actor.
1979 – Takashi Kondo, Japanese voice actor.
1980: Marama Faheroa, French footballer.
1981 – Rami Malek, American actor.
** Zara Al Balushi, Omani actress.
1988 – Marcelo Vieira da Silva Junior, Brazilian footballer.
1992 – Malcolm David Kelley, American actor.
1994 Ahmed Al-Ghandour, Egyptian Internet celebrity.
**Mostafa Fathi is an Egyptian footballer
1997- Frankie de Jong, Dutch footballer
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Death:
1382 – Queen Jovanna I, queen of the Kingdom of Naples.
1700 – John Dryden, English writer.
1798 – George Vancouver, English navigator.
1884 – Bedrzej Smitna, Czech musician.
1901 – Abdo Al-Hamouli, Egyptian musician.
1964 – Istvan Rusti, Egyptian actor.
1968 – Ahmed Hassan Al-Zayat, one of the men of the literary renaissance in Egypt.
1970 – Nelly Sachs, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966.
1989: Taher Abu Fasha, Egyptian poet and author. Amin Talieh, Lebanese lawyer, university professor, judge and writer.
1994 – Erik Erikson, German psychologist.
2001 – Didi, Brazilian footballer and coach.
2006 – Hussein Maziq, Prime Minister of Libya.
2007 – Mullah Dadullah, military commander of the Taliban.
2016 – Ibrahim Al-Dirawi, Shiite jurist and Arab-Iranian poet.
2019 – Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, 76th Maronite Patriarch.
2020 – Ibrahim Nasr, Egyptian actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ International Nurses Day commemorates the birth of Florence Nightingale in 1820.
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