It happened on this day, August 15th.
Events:
1096 – Launch of the Poor People's Campaign, which precedes the First Crusade.
1912 – Ahmed Al-Haiba enters Marrakech and pledges allegiance to the Sultan of Morocco.
1914 – The Panama Canal opens to maritime navigation between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
1918 – Diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia are severed following the Bolshevik Revolution.
1929 – The Buraq Revolt breaks out in Jerusalem in response to the Jews' demand to seize the Buraq Wall. The British suppress the uprising with what is described as brutal force.
(1945–Japan accepts the terms of surrender of the Allies during the Second World War
1947 – India declares independence from the United Kingdom.
✴️ Muhammad Ali Jinnah – founder of Pakistan – is sworn in as the first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
1948 – The establishment of the Republic of Korea is announced in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
1960 – Congo-Brazzaville gains independence from France.
1975 – Bangladeshi President Mujibur Rahman is assassinated in a military coup.
1990 – Iraq withdraws its forces from Iran and announces its acceptance of the “Treaty of Algiers of 1975” dividing the Shatt al-Arab between them.
2007 – More than 250 people were killed and 500 injured in four oil tanker explosions and three car bombs in the Yazidi-majority towns of Al-Qahtaniyah and Adnaniyah in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate.
✴️ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins Likud leadership with 73.2% majority
2009 – 55 people, including a woman and a child, were killed after a wedding tent caught fire in the Al-Oyoun area of Kuwait.
2013 – A new species of mammal has been discovered in the Andes for the first time in 35 years. It belongs to the raccoon family and is called Olinguito.
2015 – The arrest of Lebanese Sheikh Ahmed Al-Asir Al-Husseini at Beirut International Airport for incitement and participation in armed clashes with the Lebanese army.
✴️ A series of explosions using several explosive devices and car bombs have rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing around 20 people and injuring more than a hundred.
2019 – All 233 passengers of Ural Airlines Flight 178 survived after birds collided with both engines, and the pilot managed to make an emergency landing.
2021 – The Taliban movement regains control of Afghanistan and culminates its military campaign with the capture of Kabul after the collapse of the Afghan government and its forces and the departure of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani from power following the US withdrawal from the country.
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Births:
1195 – Saint Anthony, Portuguese saint.
1432 – Luigi Bolsci, Italian poet.
1769 – Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader and then French emperor.
1771 – Walter Scott, Scottish poet and writer.
1879 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress.
1883 – Jamil Boutros Helweh, poet who immigrated from Damascus.
1888 – Thomas Edward Lawrence, a British intelligence man known as Lawrence of Arabia.
1890 – Jacques Ebert, French musician.
1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929.
1896 – Gerty Curie, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1947.
1912 – Julia Child, American chef.
1925 – Hoda Sultan, Egyptian actress.
1926 – Costas Stephanopoulos, Greek President.
1930 – Yahya El-Gamal, Egyptian constitutional lawyer and politician.
1931 – Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince and founder of the Free Princes Movement.
** Richard Hick, American organic chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010.
1936 – Tahar Ouattar, Algerian writer.
1936 – Sadiq Abdel Haq, Jordanian lawyer, writer and poet.
1944 – Hoda Haddad, Lebanese singer and actress.
(1945–Alain JuppéFrench politician
1947 – Abdul Imam Abdullah, Kuwaiti actor.
1950 – Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II.
1952: Rudi Kargos, German footballer.
** Fayed Abdel Jawad Ibrahim, Syrian poet.
1955 – Ali Al-Arayedh, Tunisian Prime Minister.
1958 Raja Youssef, Syrian actress. ** Nayef Rajoub, Palestinian politician and former minister.
1961 – Fares Al-Helou, Syrian actor.
1963 – Valery Levonevsky, Belarusian politician.
1966 – Shukri Al-Waer, Tunisian football goalkeeper.
1972 – Ben Affleck, American actor.
1976 – Baudouijn Zenden, Dutch footballer.
1983 – Khaled Khalaf, Kuwaiti footballer.
1989 – Joe Jonas, American singer.
1990 – Jennifer Lawrence, American actress.
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Death:
423 – Honorius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1040 – Duncan I, King of Scotland.
1118 – Alexios I Komnenos, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1214 – Abdullah bin Al-Hasan Al-Qurtubi, Andalusian Muslim scholar, linguist and writer.
1889 – Johann Heinrich Gelzer, Swiss historian and diplomat.
1936 – Grazia Deleda, Italian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926.
1951 – Fahd Al-Askar, Kuwaiti poet.
1967 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist artist.
1969 – Ahmed Marouf Abdel Razzaq, Iraqi writer.
1975 – Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh.
1977 – Naji Marouf, Iraqi writer.
1982 – Hugo Tjorl, Swedish physician, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1955.
2004 – Sonny Bergström, Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1982.
2009 – Abdul Latif Musa, leader of the Palestinian group Jund Ansar Allah.
2010 – Ghazi Al-Gosaibi, Saudi poet, writer, ambassador and minister.
** Fouad Ahmed, Egyptian actor.
2013 – Abdul Rahman Al-Sumait, Kuwaiti Islamic preacher and owner of numerous charities in Africa in particular and in several other regions of the world.
2018 – Abu Bakr Al-Jazairi, an Algerian Sunni religious scholar.
2021 – Gerd Müller, German footballer.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in India.
⬅️ National holiday in South Korea.
⬅️ National Day in the Republic of Congo.
⬅️ Mother's Day in Costa Rica.
⬅️ Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
⬅️ Syrian Press Day.
