It happened on this day, August 14th.
Events:
1844 – The Battle of Isly takes place between France and Morocco.
1929 – Establishment of the Jewish Agency in Palestine, whose mission is to collect financial aid to support the Zionist movement to establish a national homeland for the Jews.
1947 – Pakistan gains independence from India under the leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
1949 – Officer Sami al-Hinnawi leads a military coup in Syria against Hosni al-Zaim and executes him.
1968 – A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter owned by Los Angeles Airlines crashes in Compton, California, killing 21 people.
1974 – The Turkish army enters the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, following a military coup in Cyprus and the coming to power of a Greek Cypriot military government.
1994 – International terrorist Carlos is arrested in Sudan.
2003 – Power outages in northern United States and Canada.
2005 – A Helios Airlines plane collided with a mountain north of Marathonas and Varnavas, Greece. The accident resulted in the death of 121 people and the entire crew of the plane.
2009 – The leader of the Jund Ansar Allah group, Abdul Latif Musa, announces from the “Ibn Taymiyyah Mosque” in Rafah the creation of an Islamic emirate in the suburbs of Jerusalem.
2013 – Hundreds of people were killed and thousands injured after Egyptian police dispersed the Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda sit-ins in support of President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo and Giza, declaring a state of emergency and a curfew in Egypt.
2017 – The UK House of Commons announces that the historic Big Ben clock will cease to function for a period of 4 years due to restoration and repair work, after 157 years of continuous operation.
✴️ More than 300 people have been killed and over 3,000 people have been displaced by floods and mudslides in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
2018 – Floods due to heavy rains in the Indian state of Kerala claimed the lives of 300 people and displaced 200,000 others.
✴️ The collapse of part of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Italy, killing 39 people.
2020 – The number of confirmed infections of the Corona pandemic exceeds 21 million people worldwide, including more than 761,000 deaths and approximately 13 million 48,000 recovered cases.
2021 – An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale hits the Petit Trou du Nepe region of Haiti, causing extensive damage to buildings and hundreds of casualties.
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Births:
1642 – Cosimo III, Duke of Tuscany.
1777 – Francesco I, King of the Two Sicilies.
** Hans Oersted, Danish physicist and chemist.
1867 – John Galsworthy, English writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
1874 – Mustafa Kamel, Egyptian politician.
1926 – René Goscinny, French writer.
1933 – Richard Ernst, Swiss chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991.
(1945–Steve MartinAmerican actor
1947 – Zahra Al-Rubaie, Iraqi actress.
1949 – Morten Olsen, Danish footballer and coach.
1959 – Marcia Gay Harden, American actress.
1962 – Iklil Dhanin, President of the Comoros.
1966 – Muhammad Kharmashu, Syrian actor.
** Halle Berry, American actress.
1971 – Raoul Bova, Italian actor.
1972 – Tamer Al-Saeed, Egyptian film director.
1973 – Jared Borghetti, Mexican footballer.
** Jay Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer.
1976 – Maya Nasri, Lebanese singer and actress.
1978 – Iyas Abu Ghazaleh, Palestinian actor born in Syria.
1981 – Matthew Etherington, English footballer.
1983 – Mila Kenis, American actress.
1984 – Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player.
1985 – Christian Gentner, German footballer.
1988 – Shahad Barmada, Syrian singer.
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Death:
582 – Emperor Tiberius II, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1118 – Al-Mustadhir Billah, Abbasid caliph.
1426 – Khalil bin Harun Al-Sanhaji, Malikite jurist and Sufi from the Maghreb.
1464 – Pope Pius II, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1661 – Safi al-Din al-Qashashi, Muslim mystic, jurist and author.
1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912.
1949 – Hosni al-Zaim, Syrian military man and politician.
1956 – Bertolt Brecht, German poet.
1958 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
1988 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian investor, founder of the Ferrari racing team and owner of the brand itself.
1988 – Ibrahim Allan, Palestinian poet, linguist and journalist.
2010 – Ahmed Al-Saqqaf, Kuwaiti writer and poet.
2011 – Talaat Zein, Egyptian singer and actor.
** Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor.
2017 – Abdel Karim Ghallab, Moroccan writer.
2020 – Shweikar, Egyptian actress.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Pakistan.
⬅️ Flag Day in Paraguay.
