It happened on this day, May 16
events:
1916 – The Sykes-Picot Agreement is concluded between France and the United Kingdom to define zones of influence in Western Asia following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
1942 – US President Franklin Roosevelt orders General MacArthur to leave the Philippines following the collapse of US defenses.
1949 – The government of Hosni al-Zaim approves the Tapline Agreement, under which Syria accepts the passage of an oil pipeline to transport oil from Saudi fields to the Lebanese port of Sidon via its territory.
1964 – Celebrations for the completion of work on the first phase of the High Dam in Egypt.
1975 – A Japanese women's climbing team successfully reaches the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the first women's team to reach the mountain's summit.
1988 – Restoration of diplomatic relations between Algeria and Morocco after 12 years of rupture.
1989 – The Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Hassan Khaled, is assassinated by blowing up his car.
1993 – Suleyman Demirel is elected president of Turkey.
1995 – Asahara Shoko of the group Aum Shinrikyo is arrested.
1999 – The Emir of the State of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, issues an Amiri Decree granting women the right to nominate and vote in Kuwait during the period of dissolution of the National Assembly and preparation new elections. The National Assembly abandoned this decree after the elections were held.
2002 – Club Al-Ahly defeated Club Zamalek with a score of 6/1.
2003 – Terrorist attack on the Moroccan city of Casablanca, known as the “Casablanca bombings”.
2006 – The Kuwaiti National Assembly approved a bill granting Kuwaiti women the right to vote and nomination, with the approval of 35 members out of approximately 59 members, while 23 members rejected it and one member abstained to vote.
2007 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy officially takes power.
2008 – The Emir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, opens the Lebanese Dialogue Conference in Doha aimed at resolving the Lebanese crisis, in the presence of several Lebanese leaders and under the auspices of the Arab League. States and the Arab Ministerial Committee responsible for resolving the Lebanese crisis.
2009 – Kuwaitis go to the polls to choose their representatives to the National Assembly for the thirteenth time in Kuwait's history and the third time in three years.
✴️ Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa announces military victory over the Tamil Tigers, 26 years after the civil war that tore the country apart.
2014 – Clashes erupt in the city of Benghazi between Libyan army forces led by Major General Khalifa Haftar and groups supporting Ansar al-Sharia, in what would later be known as Operation Dignity.
2015 – An Egyptian court sentences ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and 150 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death.
2018 – The Saudi Sports Authority suspended Fahd Al-Mirdasi, one of the 2018 World Cup referees, for life after he was accused in a corruption case.
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Births:
1845 – Ilya Metchnikoff, Russian microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1908.
1885 – Munira Al Mahdia, Egyptian artist.
1898 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter.
1900 – Amer Al-Sayyid Othman, Sheikh of all Egyptian reciters.
1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor.
1907 – Antonin Butsch, Czechoslovak footballer.
1915 – Mario Monicalli, Italian director.
1916 – Ephraim Katzir, president of Israel.
1917 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer.
1923 – Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990.
1927 – Nilton Santos, Brazilian footballer.
1928 – Ahmed Al-Assal, Egyptian Islamic scholar and preacher.
1942 – Yasser Al-Azma, Syrian actor.
1944 – Danny Trejo, American actor.
(1945-JeanGascotFrench papyrologist
** Massimo Moratti, president of the Italian club Inter Milan.
1950 – Johannes Bednorz, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987.
** Tharaa Debsi, Syrian actress.
1951 – Emmanuel Todd, French author.
1953 – Pierce Brosnan, American actor.
1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer.
1968 – Luboš Mikhail, Slovak football referee.
1969 – David Boreanaz, American actor.
1973 – Mona Abu Suleiman, Saudi journalist.
** Kosuke Toriumi, Japanese voice actor.
1978 – Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer.
1980 – Michael Alonzo, Spanish footballer.
1983 – Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer.
** Rania Ahmed, Syrian actress.
1985 – Inga Mittag, German footballer.
1986 – Ali Nasser, Qatari footballer.
** Megan Fox, American actress.
**Andy Keough, Irish footballer.
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Death:
1703 – Charles Perrault, French writer.
1761 – Abdullah bin Hussein Al-Suwaidi, Iraqi linguist and writer.
1830 – Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist.
1926 – Sultan Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan.
1947 – Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1929.
1988 – Fawaz Al-Sajer, Syrian theater director.
1989 – Sheikh Hassan Khaled, Mufti of the Lebanese Republic.
1991 – Masoud Jouni, Syrian poet and short story writer.
2006 – Abdullah Zakaria Al-Ansari, Kuwaiti writer.
2007 – Gohar Gasparyan, Armenian-Egyptian opera singer.
2008 – Hadeel Muhammad Al-Hudhaif, Saudi blogger, writer and novelist.
2021 – Nadia Al-Iraqiya, Iraqi actress.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ Teachers’ Day in Malaysia.
◀️ International Day of Light.
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