It happened on this day, May 31
events:
1535 – Carlos V launches his campaign from Barcelona towards Tunisia with the intention of occupying it.
1910 – Independence of the Republic of South Africa.
1934 – British planes bomb the city of Sulaymaniyah. Egyptian radio begins broadcasting for the first time.
1962 – Adolf Eichmann, an official in Nazi Germany, is executed after being tried as a war criminal in Israel.
1966 – The Emir of the State of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, issues an Amiri decree appointing Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as crown prince, after pledging allegiance to him in the National Assembly.
1976 – Egypt asks the Arab League to accept the Palestine Liberation Organization as a full member of the League.
1977 – Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani pledges allegiance as Crown Prince of Qatar.
2002 – Opening of the seventeenth FIFA World Cup, hosted by Japan and South Korea.
2004 – The execution of the death sentence against two Saudis and a Kuwaiti who kidnapped a five-year-old girl, violated her honor, then stabbed her with a knife and hid her features by mutilating her and ripping out her head. head. one of the most heinous crimes committed in Kuwait.
2009 – Jassem Al-Kharafi was recommended as Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly to assume the presidency of the Assembly for the fifth consecutive time, after the opening session of the thirteenth session.
✴️ The death of Melvina Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic disaster.
2010 – The Israeli Navy attacked the Freedom Flotilla ships heading towards the Gaza Strip with commandos and using live ammunition and gas. The attack resulted in the deaths of at least 19 people and the injury of 26 others aboard the flotilla. ships and strong international condemnation of the attack.
✴️ German President Horst Kohler resigns from office after widespread condemnation for his statements on the economic and financial role of his country's military intervention in Afghanistan.
2017 – At least 90 people were killed and 400 others injured, most of them civilians, in a suicide car bomb attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
2018 – Zinedine Zidane suddenly announces his resignation as coach of Real Madrid, a few days after winning his third Champions League title.
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Births:
1469 – King Manuel I, 14th king of the Kingdom of Portugal. 1773 – Ludwig Tieck, German writer.
1812 – Hermann Martin Asmus, German archaeologist.
1819 – Walt Whitman, American poet.
1883 – Lauri Christian Rylander, President of Finland.
1887 – Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960.
1911 – Maurice Alias, French economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1988.
1916 – Bernard Lewis, Anglo-American historian and orientalist.
1922 – Denholm Elliot, English actor.
1923 – René III, Prince of Monaco.
1930 – Clint Eastwood, American actor and director.
1931 – John Robert Shriver, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972.
(1945-Laurent Gbagbopresident of Ivory Coast1949-YounesShalabiEgyptian actor
1953 – Kafi Iraqi, Yemeni singer.
1954 – Thomas Mavros, Greek footballer.
1961 – Lee Thompson, American actress.
1962 – Noriko Hidaka, Japanese actress.
1965 – Brooke Shields, American actress.
1968 – Nahla Salama, Egyptian actress.
1975 – Reham Saeed, Egyptian media personality.
1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor.
1985 – Suhair Al-Qaisi, Iraqi journalist.
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Death:
1809 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian musician.
1832 – Evariste Galois, French mathematician.
1905 – Adelaide Ehrenroth, Finnish journalist and writer.
1937 – Amin Taqi al-Din, Lebanese lawyer, journalist, poet and writer.
1938 – Sheikh Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, son of Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait.
1962 – Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi official.
1971 – Najla Saab, Lebanese feminist and women's rights activist.
1976 – Jacques Monnot, French biologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1965.
1979 – Ahmed Al-Mustanab, Iranian-Iraqi jurist.
1983 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer.
1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975.
2001 – Faisal Al-Husseini, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Authority and responsible for the Jerusalem file.
2006 – Raymond Davis, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.
2007 – Abdul Rahman Al-Omari, Saudi detainee died in Guantanamo prison.
2012 – Farid Habib, Lebanese politician.
2013 – Muhammad Diya al-Din al-Sabouni, Syrian-Saudi linguist, poet and teacher.
2016 – Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Sahrawi Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front.
2020 – Razzaq Ibrahim Hassan, Iraqi journalist, poet and writer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ World No Tobacco Day.
