It happened on this day, August 5th.
events:
1858 – Creation of the first transatlantic telegraph line.
1876 – The first issue of Al-Ahram newspaper is published.
1907 – Two French warships bombard the city of Casablanca after killing four Frenchmen in the city.
1919 – Start of the Turkish military revolution led by Mustafa Kemal against Ottoman rule.
1914 – The first traffic light in history is installed in the American city of Cleveland.
1947 – The Tunisian General Labor Union launches a general strike in the city of Sfax, which leads to a clash with French forces and leaves dozens of casualties.
1962 – The body of American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her apartment after taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
1963 – Kuwait and Saudi Arabia agree to divide the Neutral Zone between them into two parts, with one part joining Kuwait and the other joining Saudi Arabia.
✴️ The United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom sign the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1966 – Spain prevents British planes from flying over its territory due to the conflict over Gibraltar.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air traffic control workers for refusing to return to work and continuing the strike.
2003 – Crown Prince of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, abdicates in favor of his brother, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who is appointed by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, as Crown Prince.
2007 – Legislative elections in the 2nd and North Matn districts of Beirut to elect the replacements for the assassinated deputies, Pierre Amin Gemayel and Walid Eido, without the signature of the President of the Republic, Emile Lahoud, because he considered all the actions of the government to be illegitimate. The elections resulted in the victory of the Free Patriotic Movement candidate in Matn and the Future Movement candidate in Beirut.
2009 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in as president of Iran for a second term. General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is sworn in as president of Mauritania, one year after the coup he led.
2010 – The collapse of the Copiapó mine in Chile traps 33 workers about 700 meters underground.
2015 – The wreckage of a plane was found on the beaches of Reunion Island and belonged to Malaysia Airlines flight 370, missing since March 2014.
✴️ Ten thousand firefighters are battling wildfires in California, and one of them is killed.
2016 – At least 90 people were killed and thousands more were injured and arrested during mass protests in Ethiopia against human rights abuses and rampant corruption in the country.
2018 – A second, more severe earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the magnitude scale, hits the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing 98 people and injuring many more after the warning quake a week earlier.
2019 – The Indian parliament abolishes the autonomy of the Indian part of the disputed Kashmir region with Pakistan, and Islamabad expels the Indian ambassador and discusses ways to respond through the United Nations, with the UN Secretary-General calling for “the greatest possible degree of restraint.”
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Births:
1802 – Nils Henrik Appel, Norwegian mathematician.
1850 – Guy de Maupassant, French novelist.
1867 – Mahmoud Taqi al-Din, Lebanese administrator and politician.
1870 – Edward Arber, English engraver.
1879 – Sati' al-Husri, Syrian thinker.
1891 – Zaki Mubarak, Egyptian writer.
1905 – Vasily Leontiev, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1973.
1927 – Antoun Kazan, Lebanese lawyer and poet.
1930 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and first person to walk on the Moon.
1940 – Talal Maddah, Saudi singer.
1948 – Ray Clemence, English footballer and manager.
1950 – Ibrahim Al-Feki, Egyptian expert in human development.
1955 – Hussam al-Din Afaneh, Palestinian scholar and jurist.
1961 – Ali Jaber, Lebanese journalist.
** Hala Aoun, Lebanese actress.
1965 – Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer.
1967 – Laila Sammour, Syrian actress.
** Kazunori Yamauchi, Japanese designer and producer of the Gran Turismo series.
1968 – Marine Le Pen, French politician.
1972 – Meeting with Suwaidan, an Egyptian actress.
1973 – Amjad Al-Najjar, Palestinian politician.
1974 – Kajol, Indian actress.
1977 – Ryo Hirohashi, Japanese actress.
1980 – Wayne Bridge, English footballer.
** Jason Collina, Australian footballer.
1984 – Tariq Al-Shammari, Kuwaiti footballer.
** Afas Al-Harshani, Kuwaiti footballer.
** Abdelkader Jerio, Algerian actor and director.
1985 – Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer.
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Death:
1792 – Frederick North, British Prime Minister.
1888 – Philip Sheridan, American military commander and one of the leaders of the Federal Army during the American Civil War.
1895 – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher.
1946 – Wilhelm Marx, German Chancellor.
1952 – Radhi Al Yassin, Iraqi Muslim jurist.
** Samira Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist
1957 – Heinrich Wieland, German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1927.
1962 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress.
1981 – Muhammad Al-Adnani, Palestinian poet and linguist.
1984 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor.
1987 – Aida Hilal, Lebanese/Egyptian actress.
1991 – Soichiro Honda, founder of Japanese automobile manufacturer Honda.
2000 – Mostafa Metwally, Egyptian actor.
** Alec Guinness, English actor.
2008 – Ibrahim Shukri, Egyptian politician.
2012 – Muhammad Nouh, Egyptian musician.
2014 – Khalil Morsi, Egyptian actor.
** Kristian Karlsson is an Icelandic writer and poet.
2015 – Mirna Al Mohandes, Egyptian actress.
2019 – Muhammad Asif Mohseni, an Afghan Shiite authority.
2020 – Muhammad Tariq Al-Khadra, Chief of Staff of the Palestine Liberation Army.
2021 – Hasaballah Al-Kafrawi, Egyptian politician and former Minister of Housing.
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Public holidays and occasions:
Children's Day in China.
