It happened on this day, May 27
events:
1498 – Portuguese sailor Vasco da Gama arrives in India and discovers a sea route allowing direct trade between Europe and Asia.
1679 – The Habeas Corpus Act is enacted in England. This is a court order to bring a person before the court.
1703 – Russian Emperor Peter the Great establishes St. Petersburg as the new capital after gaining access to the Baltic Sea through victory in the Great Northern War.
1832 – The Egyptian army, led by “Ahmed Al-Munukli”, conquers the city of Acre after a siege that lasted 6 months, after the Egyptian governor, Muhammad Ali Pasha, declared war on the governor of Acre , “Abdullah”. Pasha”, under the pretext of harboring 6,000 Egyptians fleeing conscription and refusing to send wood to build the Egyptian fleet.
1840 – The “Secret Meeting of Deir al-Qamar” takes place, which marks the start of the Levantine revolution against Ibrahim Pasha, which ends with his expulsion from the Levant after an Ottoman military intervention supported by Britain.
1905 – The Japanese fleet manages to destroy the Russian fleet in the “Tsushima Strait” off the coast of Korea, which included 32 fighter planes, and capture the rest of its ships, in what is known as the Battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Russian War. Japanese War.
1918 – Afghanistan declared independence from the United Kingdom.
1934 – The Iraq Petroleum Company completes construction of the Kirkuk/Haifa pipeline to export Iraqi oil via Mediterranean ports. This line ceased to operate after the establishment of the State of Israel.
1941 – The British fleet sinks the German battleship “Bismarck” during World War II, near the coast of Ireland. More than two thousand sailors on board drowned, and the remains of this battleship are still present at a depth of five kilometers below the surface. of the sea.
1955 – The Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Anthony Eden, wins the parliamentary elections with an absolute majority.
✴️ Earthquakes and nine volcanic eruptions in Chile, killing thousands.
1960 – The Turkish army overthrows President Mahmut Celal Bayar and his civilian government led by Adnan Menderes, and General Cemal Gursel takes power.
1971 – Signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Egypt and the Soviet Union for a period of 15 years, but it is canceled 5 years after its signing.
1995 – Around 2,500 people are killed after an earthquake hits the eastern Russian island of Sakhalin.
1998 – The first two brothers to obtain the title of yokozuna in history, when “Wakanohana” obtains the title of yokozuna after his older brother, “Takanohana”.
2000 – Discovery of the asteroid (28891) 2000 KK75
2004 – British police arrest Abu Hamza Al-Masry at the request of an American.
2015 – Nebraska becomes the nineteenth American state to abolish the death penalty.
2019 – The last male Sumatran rhino died in Malaysia, leaving behind only one female of the same rare species in captivity. The number of these animals remaining in the world is estimated to be between 30 and 80 at this date.
2021 – A mass grave is discovered on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, British Columbia, Canada, containing the remains of 215 Indigenous children.
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Births:
1332 – Ibn Khaldun, founder of sociology.
1756 – Maximilian I Joseph, king of Bavaria.
1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman.
1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American fighter.
1871 – Georges Rouhe, French painter.
1896 – Joanna Cannon, British novelist.
1897 – John Cockroft, British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951.
1922 – Christopher Lee, representative of England.
1923 – Henry Kissinger, American politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
1926 – Rashidi Kawawa, Tanzanian politician and statesman.
1931 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress.
1935 – Walid Ikhlasi, Syrian novelist.
1939 – Hassan Yacoub Al-Ali, Kuwaiti writer and playwright.
1947 – Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer and manager.
1953 – Omar Abdel Aziz, Egyptian director.
1967 – Paul Gascoigne, English footballer and manager.
1970 – Joseph Fiennes, English actor.
1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor. Manal Afifi, Egyptian actress.
1973 – Shahad Salman, Kuwaiti actress.
1979 – Mel Stryjowski, Australian rules footballer.
1981 – Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer.
1982 – Natalie Neidhart, Canadian wrestler.
1983 – Bobby Convey, American football player.
1985 – Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer.
1986 – Timo Decamps, Belgian singer and actor. Lasse Schone, Danish footballer.
1987 – Gervinho, Ivorian footballer.
1990 – Chris Colfer, American actor, singer, screenwriter and producer.
1991 – Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player.
1994 – Aymeric Laporte, French footballer.
1999 – Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress and model.
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Death:
1508 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of the Duchy of Milan.
1525 – Thomas Müntzer, German priest.
1564 – John Calvin, French religious reformer and theologian and founder of Calvinism.
1873 – Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, one of the leaders of the scientific renaissance in Egypt and founder of the Al-Alsun school.
1910 – Robert Koch, German doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1905.
1960 – Robert Thorne, American scientist.
1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India.
1987 – John Northrup, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946.
1988 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.
2009 – Clive Granger, Welsh economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003.
**Uncle Baba, Iraqi football player and coach.
2012 – Johnny Tapia, American boxer.
2015 – Michael Martin, American philosopher and academic. 2018 – Muhammad Ahmed Al Harithi, Omani poet and writer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ National Scout Day in Algeria.
◀️ Mother's Day in Bolivia.
◀️ Children's Day in Nigeria.
◀️ World Multiple Sclerosis Day.
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