It happened on this day, August 10th.
Events:
1557 – The French are defeated by a Spanish-English alliance at the Battle of Saint-Quintin during the Habsburg-Valois War.
1792 – French revolutionaries attack the “Palace of the Star”, seat of King Louis
1793 – The Louvre Museum opens in Paris, one year after the onslaught of the French Revolution. Before that, it was known as the “Heltoys-l-Ry” Palace and was the residence of the kings of France. before the French Revolution.
1809 – Ecuador declares independence from Spain.
1821 – Missouri becomes the 24th state of the United States of America.
1913 – A peace agreement is reached ending the Balkan War.
1914 – France declares war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I.
1920 – The Ottoman Empire abolishes its sovereignty over Palestine and recognizes the British Mandate over it. The Treaty of Sèvres is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied Forces, following World War I. The agreement stipulated that Hejaz, Armenia, and Kurdistan would gain independence and demarcated the borders between Syria and Iraq on the one hand and Turkey on the other.
1922 – The Constitution of Palestine was announced by the British Mandatory Authority. The Constitution provided for the establishment of a Legislative Council consisting of 22 members, including 6 English and 4 Jews, and the election of 8 Muslims, 2 Christians and 2 Jews, headed by the High Commissioner. The Palestinians boycotted the election of the Council.
(1945 – Japan announces its capitulation by radio during the Second World War
1973 – The Soviet Union launches the fourth spacecraft to Mars, named “Mars-7”.
1974 – Portugal announces a two-year plan to grant independence to Angola.
1989 – General Colin Powell is appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first black man to hold that position in the United States.
1990 – The eighteenth emergency Arab summit is held in Cairo to discuss the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
1998 – Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei issues a royal decree appointing his son Al-Muhtadi Billah Bolkiah as Crown Prince.
2002 – Turkmenistan enacts a law changing the names of months and days of the week.
2010 – World Health Organization Director Margaret Chan announces the end of the swine flu epidemic.
2014 – Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes near Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, killing at least 38 people.
✴️ Announcement of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's victory in the presidential elections in Turkey in the first round after winning 51.79% of the voters' votes.
2015 – Google announces the creation of Alphabet to become its holding company and appoints Sundar Pichai as Google's new CEO.
2020 – Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announces the resignation of his government following the Beirut port explosion about a week ago and violent protests demanding that those responsible be punished.
✴️ Pro-democracy protests erupt in Belarus amid dispute over re-election of current President Alexander Lukashenko.
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Births:
1296 – King Yang the Blind, King of Bohemia.
1568 – Abd al-Qadir al-Tabari, Muslim scholar, writer and poet from Hejazi.
1642 – Ali Khan Al-Madani, Hejazi-Persian jurist, writer and poet.
1810 – Camillo Benso, Italian Prime Minister.
1874 – Herbert Hoover, President of the United States.
1902 – Arne Tesselius, Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948.
1913 – Wolfgang Powell, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989.
1936 – Ibrahim Al-Shakanqiri, Egyptian film director.
1937 – Afif Abdel Rahman, Palestinian-Jordanian linguist and literary scholar.
(1945-SheikhFahadAl-AhmadAl-JaberAl-Sabahlone of the most notable sports personalities in the Gulf and Asian countries
1951 – Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia.
1959 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress.
1960 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor.
1966 – Ibrahim Hassan, Egyptian footballer and coach.
** Hossam Hassan, Egyptian footballer and coach.
1969 – Joanna Hadji Touma, Lebanese director.
** Brian Drummond, Canadian actor.
1971 – Roy Keane, Irish footballer.
1973 – Javier Zanetti, Argentine footballer.
** Haifa Al-Mansour, Saudi director.
1974 – David Sommel, French footballer.
1978 – Daniel Alsop, Australian rules footballer.
1979 – Joana Garcia, American actress.
1981 – Sarah Dandrawi, Saudi journalist.
** Malek Moaz, Saudi footballer.
1988 – Abbas Ibrahim, Saudi singer.
1989 – Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer.
1997 – Kylie Jenner, American actress and model.
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Death:
1535 – Hippolyte de Medici, ruler of Florence.
1896 – Otto Lilienthal, German inventor of aviation.
1907 – Muhammad Dhafer Al-Madani, Malikite jurist and Sufi Chadli Trabelsi Ottoman.
1915 – Henry Moseley, English physicist.
1992 – Arbert Heim, Austrian Nazi doctor.
2012 – Omar bin Suleiman Al-Ashqar, a Palestinian cleric.
** Ahmed Zaid Al-Sarhan, Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
2019 – Hamoud Nasser, Kuwaiti singer. Hassan Abu Khamsin, Jaafari jurist and Saudi judge.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Ecuador.
