It happened on this day, June 5
events:
1249 – The city of Damietta falls to Louis IX, King of France and commander of the Crusader forces participating in the Seventh Crusade.
1487 – Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz, with the help of Arab traveler Ibn Majid, discovers the route to the Cape of Good Hope on his return from India. And its way along the African coasts.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is composed of electricity during his famous experiment by flying his kite on a rainy day.
1899 – A judgment is rendered acquitting French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus of charges of high treason and espionage for Germany.
1916 – Start of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, led by the ruler of Mecca, Sharif Hussein bin Ali.
1926 – Drawing of the borders between Iraq and Turkey and sharing of part of Kurdistan between the two countries.
1928 – British authorities bomb Yemeni towns and villages, disrupting negotiations on the development of friendly and commercial relations between the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and Britain.
1942 – British counterattack against the forces of Nazi Germany led by Erwin Rommel during World War II. The results of this attack were disastrous for the British, who lost thousands of their soldiers and hundreds of armored vehicles despite their overwhelming superiority.
1944 – Fall of the Italian capital, Rome, to the Allies at the end of World War II.
1947 – U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall announces his plan to rebuild Europe after World War II, known as the Marshall Plan.
1965 – Iran imposes martial law and arrests Ayatollah Khomeini and then exiles him in an attempt by the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to contain growing public anger against him.
1967 – Israel attacks Egypt, Syria and Jordan in what is known as the Six-Day War.
1968 – Sirhan Sirhan shoots Robert Kennedy, resulting in his death the next day.
1975 – Egypt reopens the Suez Canal after its evacuation by the Israelis, with the first ship passing through in eight years, and President Mohamed Anwar Sadat was on board the ship.
1977 – Steve Jobs launches the Apple II on the market.
1981 – Beginning of the emergence of HIV/AIDS.
1984 – The Royal Saudi Air Force shot down two Iranian planes and wounded a third after they attempted to penetrate the Fahd Line.
1991 – Sayed Ahmed Ghazali is appointed Algerian Prime Minister.
2002 – Release of Mozilla browser version 1.0.
2006 – Serbia declares independence from the Federation of Serbia and Montenegro as the Republic of Serbia.
2010 – Hurricane Phet hits the coast of the Sultanate of Oman.
2013 – Syrian army forces and Lebanese Hezbollah forces took control of the town of Qusayr, in the countryside of Homs governorate, after opposition fighters withdrew, following months of siege and two weeks of violent fighting with militants from the Free Syrian Army and Al-Nusra. In front.
2015 – Saudi club Al Hilal were crowned champions of the Guardians of the Two Holy Mosques Cup after a 26-year absence. 236 years after its voyage, and seven weeks after setting sail, the recreated French ship Ermion arrives in the United States, and will stop in several cities until its journey ends with the celebration of Independence Day on July 4 .
2017 – Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Libya and the Maldives officially announce the severance of diplomatic relations with the State of Qatar.
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Births:
1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher.
1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist and physicist.
1819 – John Cush Adams, British astronomer and mathematician.
1859 – Salim Rustom Baz, Lebanese judge and jurist.
1862 – Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1911.
1864 – Ahmed Muhammad Hammadi, Libyan Muslim scholar, mystic and poet.
1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican general.
1883 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist.
1898 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet.
1900 – Denis Gabor, Hungarian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971.
1930 – Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer and novelist.
1942 – Teodoro Obiang, president of Equatorial Guinea.
1952 – Muhammad Shuaib, Kuwaiti footballer.
1955 – Fisent Qazaq, Syrian actor.
1958 – Ahmed Sambi, president of the Comoros.
** Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli politician.
1960 – Amal Abdel Karim, Emirati actress.
1977 – Nourhan, Lebanese singer.
** Qais Sheikh Najeeb, Syrian actor.
1978 – Fernando Meira, Portuguese footballer.
** Soti Soksomukt, Thai footballer.
1979 – Fares Al-Dhahabi, Syrian writer.
** Qamar Khalaf, Syrian actress.
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Death:
1866 – John McDowall Stuart, Scottish explorer.
1916 – Herbert Kitchener, commander of the British army.
1943 – Hikmat Ali Jumblatt, Lebanese politician.
1961 – Makram Ebeid, Egyptian politician.
1981 – Ahmed Rami, Egyptian poet.
1984 – Ahmed Fouad Mohieldin, Prime Minister of Egypt.
1986 – Togo Mizrahi, Egyptian filmmaker of Italian origin.
2002 – Radwan Al-Kashef, Egyptian director.
2003 – Jürgen Müllemann, German politician.
2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States.
2006 – Hoda Sultan, Egyptian artist.
2007 – Bovel Rammel, Swedish artist.
2011 – Sheikh Rashid Al-Hamoud Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Secretary of the Ruling Family Council of Kuwait.
2012 – Ray Bradbury, American writer.
2015 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Foreign Minister and former Deputy Prime Minister.
2017 – Helen Dunmore, British novelist and poet.
2019 – Mohamed Negm, Egyptian actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ World Environment Day.
⬅️ Constitution Day in Denmark.
⬅️ Liberation Day in Seychelles.
