It happened on this day, August 16th.
Events:
1328 – The Gonzaga dynasty takes power in the Italian Duchy of Mantua and remains in power until 1708.
(1945–US President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin declare the end of World War II
1952 – The Egyptian Supreme Military Court holds its first session in Cairo since the revolution to continue its examination of the Cairo fire case.
1953 – A coup in Iran led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq causes Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to flee to Baghdad, and his entourage is able to restore him to power three days later.
1960 – Cyprus declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1962 – Algeria joins the League of Arab States.
1971 – Bahrain gains independence from British control.
1972 – King Hassan II of Morocco survived an assassination attempt when the plane he was traveling on on his return to Rabat was targeted by the Royal Moroccan Air Force during Operation Bourak F5. The assassination attempt sparked the beginning of what is known as the Years of Lead.
1973 – US bombing of Cambodia ends.
2001 – Princess Diana's servant Paul Burrell is accused of stealing some of the contents of her private residence.
2013 – Anti-coup protests in Cairo's Ramses Square after Friday prayers, resulting in deaths and injuries near the Al-Fatah Mosque and a siege of the mosque until the next morning in what was known as the second Ramses events.
2015 – Trijana Air Services Flight 257 with 54 passengers on board crashes in Papua Province, Indonesia.
✴️ More than 110 civilians were killed by Syrian government forces when they bombed a market in the city of Douma.
2021 – Hakainde Hichilema is elected President of Zambia.
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Births:
1832 – Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist.
1845 – Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908.
1872 – Abdul Karim Al-Jazairi, Iraqi Muslim jurist and poet.
1876 - Muhammad Al-Khader Hussein, Tunisian cleric and Sheikh of Al-Azhar.
1896 – Saleh Abdel Hay, Egyptian singer.
1904 – Wendell Stanley, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946.
1913 – Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.
1941 – Ahmed Al-Mirghani, President of Sudan.
1946 – Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Nazih Khair, Arab-Israeli poet.
1951 – Umaru Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria. Mamdouh Farag, Egyptian wrestler and entertainer.
1954 – George Galloway, British politician.
** James Cameron, American film director.
1958 – Madonna, American singer.
1962 – Steve Carell, American actor.
1963 – Kalusha Bwalya, Zambian footballer.
1970 – Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor.
1971 – Bassem Yakhour, Syrian actor. Waad, a Saudi singer.
1975 – Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer.
1977 – Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer and actor.
1981 – Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer.
1982 – Todd Haberkorn, American actor.
** Joleon Lescott, English footballer.
** Aida Ghoneim, Egyptian actress.
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Death:
1377 – Ibn Habib Al-Halabi, Levantine writer and jurist.
1956 – Bela Lugosi, American actor.
1957 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932.
1969 – Ammar Ben Lazaar, Algerian lawyer and teacher.
1973 – Selman Waxman, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1952.
1977 – Elvis Presley, American singer.
1994 – Alawya Jamil, Egyptian actress.
2003 – Idi Amin, President of Uganda.
2005 – Roger Schutz, Swiss monk.
2011 – Abdul Rahman bin Saeed, Saudi athlete.
2012 – Amina bint Mohammed V, Alawite princess of the Moroccan royal family.
2014 – Mamdouh Farag, Egyptian wrestler and broadcaster.
2016 – Hani Matar, Kuwaiti actor. Joao Havelange, former FIFA president.
2018 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian politician and former Prime Minister.
** Aretha Franklin, American soul singer and songwriter.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Commemoration of the translation of the Odyssey icon into Eastern Orthodoxy.
