It happened on this day, May 19
events:
1268 – Muslims, led by Al-Zahir Baibars, succeed in retaking the city of Antioch from the Crusaders after it had remained in their hands for 170 years.
1502 – Christopher Columbus makes his fourth and final voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
1798 – The French campaign against Egypt moves from the port of Toulon, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, to Egypt.
1953 – Major General Mohamed Naguib forms his second government after the success of the July Revolution.
1956 – Start of the Algerian student strike, called by the General Union of Algerian Muslim Students to join the Algerian Liberation Revolution.
1965 – Syria announces the execution of spy Eli Cohen.
1971 – The first celebration of Malcolm Day in some states of the North American Union to commemorate and honor the career of the Islamic preacher.
1973 – Trade in Qatari and Dubai riyals stopped in both emirates.
✴️ Creation of the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates under the name “Monetary Board”.
1989 – Israel arrests Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
1990 – Soviet forces withdraw from Hungary's largest military base.
2001 – Chinese farmer Sun Zhonghua was killed by Chinese authorities because she refused to undergo sterilization to prevent her from giving birth.
2004 – Trial begins of American soldiers accused of mistreating Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison.
2009 – A new Palestinian government is formed in the West Bank, led by Salam Fayyad. The Fatah bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council is boycotting the government, while Hamas says the government is illegitimate and its formation constitutes deliberate sabotage of the Palestinian national dialogue. and a threat to the future of the dialogue, and confirmed that this issue would not be addressed.
2016 – The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially announces the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 off the coast of Greece with 66 passengers on board.
2018 – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding took place and they were declared husband and wife in the United Kingdom.
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Births:
1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher.
1881 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first president of the Republic of Türkiye.
1882 – Muhammad Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran.
1890 – Ho Chi Minh, first president and founder of North Vietnam.
1892 – Abdul Hussein Houshmand Rad, Iranian essayist and biographer.
1914 – Max Perots, British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962.
1925 – Malcolm X, founder of the Nation of Islam movement in the United States.
1927 – Youssef Idris, Egyptian writer.
1930 – Zeenat Elwy, Egyptian belly dancer and actress.
1932 – Hanem Mohamed, Egyptian actress.
1936: Andrej Kvasnak, Czech footballer.
1948 – Sami Clark, Lebanese singer and musician.
1952 – Bert van Marwijk, Dutch footballer and manager.
1954 – Hōcho Otsuka, Japanese voice actor.
1955 – James Gosling, Canadian software developer.
1960 – Yasunori Iwasaki, Japanese composer.
1963 – Filippo Galli, Italian footballer.
1970 – Mustafa Shaaban, Egyptian actor.
1977 – Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer.
1978 – Abdullah Marawah, Syrian journalist and athlete.
1979 – Sano Lake, American actress.
** Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer.
** Diego Forlan, Uruguayan footballer.
1980 – Ibtisam Al-Atawi, Bahraini actress.
* Drew Fuller, American actor.
1987 – David Edgar, Canadian football player.
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Death:
1536 – Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of his daughter, Queen Elizabeth I.
1825 – Saint-Simon, French political philosopher.
1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist.
1898 – William Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1935 – Thomas Edward Lawrence, British intelligence officer known as Lawrence of Arabia.
1965 – Muhammad al-Bashir al-Ibrahimi, Algerian Islamic thinker.
1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.
1998 – Sosuke Ono, Prime Minister of Japan.
2009 – Robert Forschgott, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1998.
** Adnan Al-Zaben, Palestinian-Jordanian Islamic poet and historian.
2015 – Hassan Mostafa, Egyptian actor.
2018 – Bernard Lewis, Anglo-American historian and orientalist.
** Maya Jribi, Tunisian politician and human rights activist.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ Malcolm X Day in the United States.
◀️ Youth and Sports Day in Türkiye.
◀️ Student day in Algeria.
◀️ Genocide Remembrance Day (Greece)
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