It happened on this day, July 26th.
events:
657 – The Battle of Siffin took place, on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq, between the army of the Muslim caliph Ali bin Abi Talib and the army of the governor of the Levant, Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan. They continued for three days and ended without resolution.
1309 – Henry VII is recognized as King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1555 – Italian Pope Paul IV orders that the Jews of Rome be confined to a ghetto and prevented from living among others, as they are accused of corruption.
1670 – The last Jew leaves Vienna after the decision to expel the Jews.
1788 – New York becomes the eleventh state of the United States of America.
1891 – France includes the island of Tahiti, the largest of the French Polynesian islands.
1908 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is created when Attorney General Charles Bonaparte orders a group of newly appointed federal investigators to send their reports to Inspector General Stanley Finch of the Justice Department.
1911 – French forces enter the city of Fez to interrupt the revolution taking place there and in many Moroccan cities to protest the injustice practiced by the French occupation.
1939 – Washington breaks trade treaty with Japan.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt makes the decision to freeze all Japanese assets in U.S. banks in response to Japan's occupation of French Indochina.
(1945-The defeat of Winston Churchill's Conservative Party in the general election gave the Labour Party the opportunity to win a majority for the first time in British election history
✴️ End of the Potsdam Conference.
1952 – King Farouk I of Egypt and Sudan abdicates the throne in favor of his son, Prince Ahmed Fuad, and appoints a guardianship council headed by Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim. He then leaves Egypt with his wife, Queen Nariman, and the rest of his family, including the new king, Ahmed Fuad. This comes a few days after the July 23 Revolution.
1956 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal.
1959 – Algerian union leader Aissat Idir is killed after being subjected to torture by the French for a full month.
1963 – A violent earthquake hits the Yugoslav city of Skopje, killing thousands.
1970 – Jordan announces its approval of U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers' initiative to resolve the conflict between Arab countries and Israel.
1994 – A car bomb explodes outside the Israeli consulate in London, injuring eight people.
2005 – Lebanese Forces commander Samir Geagea was released after a general amnesty law was passed by the Lebanese Parliament, after spending eleven years in an underground prison in the Defense Ministry building.
2016 – The Solar Impulse aircraft lands in Abu Dhabi, completing its journey around Earth more than 16 months after its launch, becoming the first aircraft of its type to achieve this feat.
✴️ The Burmese government releases census data on religion and ethnicity with a two-year delay, showing a decline in the percentage of Muslims in the country due to years of violence and persecution.
2018 – At least 80 people died and more than 22,000 were injured following a severe heat wave that swept across Japan.
2020 – The number of confirmed infections from the Corona pandemic exceeds 16 million people worldwide, including more than 644,000 deaths and approximately nine million 262,000 recovered cases.
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Births:
1612 – Sultan Murad IV, Ottoman sultan.
1829 – Auguste Marie François Bernardet, Prime Minister of Belgium and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1909.
1842 – Alfred Marshall, British economist.
1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
1865 – Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor of Germany.
1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.
1899 – Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, Iraqi poet
1922 – Jason Robards, American actor.
1923 – Muhammad Hamdi Al-Nashar, former Egyptian Minister of Finance and fourth president of Assiut University.
1928 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director, producer and writer.
“Francesco Cossiga, President of Italy.
” » Shawqi Baghdadi, Syrian poet and short story writer.
1936 – Sayed Abdel Karim, Egyptian actor.
1939 – John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia.
1942 – Vladimir Meciar, Prime Minister of Slovakia.
(1945–Helen MirrenEnglish actress
1949 – Roger Taylor, member of Queen.
“Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand.
1955 – Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan.
1952 – Muhammad Ismail Al-Muqaddam, Egyptian Islamic preacher.
1957 – Nana Visitor, American actress.
1959 – Kevin Spacey, American actor.
1964 – Sandra Bullock, American actress.
1967 – Jason Statham, English actor and former diver.
1968 – Olivia Williams, English actress.
1973 – Kate Beckinsale, English actress.
1977 – Martin Laursen, Danish footballer.
1984 – Sabri Saryoglu, Turkish footballer.
1985 – Gaël Clichy, French footballer.
1986 – Majed Khuzaym, Kuwaiti footballer.
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Death:
796 – King Offa, King of Mercia.
1830 – King George IV, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover.
1863 – Sam Houston, American politician.
1925 – William Jennings Bryan, American politician.
1929 – Abd al-Rahman al-Qassar, Syrian poet, publisher and composer.
1934 – Wesser McKay, American painter.
1936 – Abdullah Al-Alami, Palestinian Muslim jurist, poet and teacher.
1959 – Aissat Idir, Secretary General of the General Union of Algerian Workers.
1984 – Muhammad Azza Darwaza, Palestinian Arab nationalist thinker, writer and activist.
1986 – Averell Harriman, American diplomat, businessman and politician.
1987 – Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Egyptian writer and literary figure.
1996 – Abdul Rahman Al-Duwaihi, Kuwaiti poet and actor.
2015 – Muhammad Al-Lingawi, Qatari sports journalist and commentator.
2016 – Mohamed Khan, Egyptian director.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Liberia.
⬅️ Independence Day in Maldives.
