It happened on this day, June 23
events:
1280 – The Battle of Moclín takes place between the armies of the Kingdom of Granada and the Crown of Castile, and the Kingdom of Granada wins.
1532 – King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France sign a secret treaty against the Holy Roman Emperor and King Carlos V of Spain.
1724 – Signing of the Istanbul Agreement between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire against the Safavid state.
1941 – Nazi Germany begins to invade the Soviet Union as part of the events of World War II. The Turkish cargo ship “Rafah” sank in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea after being hit by a torpedo launched from an unknown submarine.
1972 – Syrian prisoner Nazih Abu Saleh arrives in Syria after managing to escape from Sarafand prison, near Tel Aviv, with two Palestinian prisoners, by digging a tunnel under him.
1985 – An Air India plane explodes at 31,000 feet off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 passengers.
1986 – An international conference is held in Paris to fight AIDS.
1989 – The position of Prime Minister in Iran is abolished.
1990 – Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 – Production of the Sonic the Hedgehog game at Sega.
2004 – Iran decides to release British sailors who entered Iranian territorial waters without authorization.
2009 – Iran expels British diplomats accused of interfering in domestic affairs, and Britain responds by expelling the Iranian diplomats.
✴️ Israeli authorities release the president of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Aziz Dweik, after three years of detention.
2012 – Formation of a new Syrian government led by Riyad Farid Hijab.
2013 – An attack by some Egyptians on Egyptian Shiite Sheikh Hassan Shehata led to his death, after he made offensive statements against some Sunni figures, according to several media reports.
2016 – Around 25 people were injured in an armed attack on a cinema in Wernheim, western Germany, and the attacker was killed. About 26 people were killed and hundreds of homes were damaged following flooding in West Virginia.
✴️ 98 people were killed and 800 injured following the Jiangsu typhoon that hit eastern China. ✴️ An agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ends the Colombian armed conflict.
2017 – Saudi security forces foil several terrorist operations in Jeddah and Mecca, near the Holy Mosque of Mecca.
2019 – Mohamed Ould Ghazouani wins the Mauritanian presidential elections with 51.81% of the vote. A drone attack targeting Abha International Airport in southern Saudi Arabia, the second in two weeks, was claimed by the Ansar Allah Houthi movement, disrupting international navigation at the airport for several hours and resulting in the death of one civilian and the injury of seven others. of different nationalities.
2021 – A mass grave was discovered on the grounds of the Maryvale Indian Residential School, located in British Columbia.
✴️ Canada contains the remains of at least 751 indigenous children.
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Births:
47 BC – Ptolemy XV, the last king of the Ptolemaic pharaohs.
1534 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese commander.
1703 – Maria Leszczynska, wife of Louis XV of France.
1763 – Empress Joséphine, Empress of France and wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
1879 – Hoda Shaarawi, founder of the women's movement in Egypt.
1889 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet.
1894 – King Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom. Alfred Kinsey, American biologist.
1907 – James Mead, English economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1977.
1910 – Jean Anouilh, French playwright.
1912 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and founder of modern computing.
1919 – Mohamed Boudiaf, fourth president of Algeria.
1920 – Saleh Al-Ajiri, Kuwaiti astronomer.
1927 – Zoqan Al-Hindawi, Jordanian politician.
1934 – Wagdi Al-Hakim, Egyptian journalist. Ali El-Sherif, Egyptian actor.
1937 – Martti Ahtisaari, 10th president of Finland and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008.
1938 – Jesús Maria Pereda, Spanish footballer.
1940 – Amal Dongul, Egyptian poet.
(1945-John Garang leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement
1955 – Jean Tigana, French footballer and coach.
1957 – Frances McDormand, American actress.
1965 – Ayman Al-Shewi, Egyptian actor.
1969 – Efi Tamala, Indonesian singer and actor
1972 – Zinedine Zidane, French footballer of Algerian origin.
** Selma Blair, American actress.
1976 – Patrick Vieira, French footballer.
1977 – Angulo, Spanish footballer.
1980 – Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player.
1981 – Mohammed Hubail, Bahraini footballer.
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Death:
79 – Emperor Vespasian, ninth Roman emperor.
1891 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist.
1957 – Jamil Talhouk, Lebanese doctor and politician.
1957 – Khader Lutfi, Iraqi poet.
1959 – Andres Saliquet, Spanish general.
1965 – Asad Rustom, Lebanese writer.
1989 – Michel Aflaq, Syrian politician and founder of the Arab socialist Baath Party.
1995 – Jonas Salk, American virologist.
1996 – Atef Al-Tayeb, Egyptian director.
1997 – Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X.
2006 – Aaron Spelling, American director.
2009 – Ed McMahon, American television presenter.
2010 – Mohamed Mazali, Prime Minister of Tunisia.
2011 – Abu Al-Enein Shaisha, Egyptian reciter of the Quran.
2013 – Nouri Faisal Shaher Al-Hadithi, Minister of Endowments and Minister of Youth in Iraq.
2021 – Abdel Nasser Al-Najjar, Palestinian journalist and trade unionist.
2021 – Ghazi Al-Haddad, Bahraini poet and writer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Victory Day in Estonia.
⬅️ Father's Day in Poland, Nicaragua and Uganda.
⬅️ International Widows’ Day, organized by the United Nations.
