It happened on this day, August 29th.
Events:
1521 – The conquest of Belgrade by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and its entry into the rule of the Ottoman Empire
1526 – The Battle of Mohács takes place between the army of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and the Hungarian army led by Louis II. The battle ends with the defeat of King Louis II and his death along with many of his statesmen. Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent entered the capital of Hungary after its entry into the Ottoman Empire.
1724 – Meeting of the Moroccan ambassador, Admiral Hajj Abdelkader Perez, with George II, King of Great Britain, in the context of Moroccan-British relations.
1831 – British chemist and physicist Michael Faraday discovers the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction.
1866 – Start of the reign of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, fifteenth and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1914 – Russian military leader Alexander Samsonov commits suicide after his forces suffer a crushing defeat by the Germans at the Battle of Tannenberg during World War I.
1934 – Adolf Hitler launches a massive purge campaign in Germany that includes large numbers of German soldiers and politicians.
1949 – RDS-1 bombing, the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon test, which was not officially announced.
1950 – Creation of the Syrian Navy.
1960 – Hazza al-Majali is assassinated in a massive bomb attack in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
1966 – Execution of Sayyed Qutb, a prominent figure in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
1967 – The Fourth Arab Summit Conference was held in Khartoum after the 1967 war. The summit was called the Three Noes Summit.
1969 – Laila Khaled and Salim Al-Issawi hijack American Airlines Flight 840 from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, divert it to Damascus, then blow it up after disembarking its passengers.
1976 – The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, issues an Emirati order to dissolve the National Assembly.
1982 – A German research team from the Institute for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt discovers the element meitnerium.
1989 – UN Security Council Resolution 0640 concerning Namibia is issued.
1995 – Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze survived an assassination attempt.
2002 – The Russian army withdraws from Lithuania, one of the three Baltic states, after it declares independence.
✴️ The leader of the National Reform Movement in Algeria, Abdallah Djaballah, announces that his movement will lead the opposition to the government in Parliament and that it will denounce all conspiracies led by the government against the religion, language and original constants of Algeria.
2003 – The head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, is assassinated after leaving the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf.
2008 – Republican presidential candidate John McCain chooses Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate if he wins the election.
✴️ The Lebanese government promotes Brigadier General Jean Kahwaji to the rank of general and appoints him commander of the Lebanese army.
✴️ Opening of the Shanghai International Financial Center.
2011 – Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda is elected to lead the ruling Democratic Party, becoming the country's sixth prime minister in five years, succeeding Naoto Kan.
2013 – Qatar launches the Es'hailSat satellite from the Kourou base in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.
2015 – Tropical Storm Erika dissipates, killing 30 people and causing millions in damage after battering the Caribbean and Dominica for four days.
✴️You Stink campaign protesters give the Lebanese government 72 hours to respond to their demands.
2016 – A bombing occurred near a Yemeni army recruitment camp in the city of Aden, killing 71 people. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Births:
1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist.
1632 – John Locke, English philosopher.
1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter.
1790 – Leopold, Duke of the Grand Duchy of Baden.
1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911.
1871 – Albert François Le Brun, French president.
1876 - Charles Kettering, American scientist and inventor.
1886 – Marco Sala, Italian footballer.
1904 – Werner Forssmann, German physician who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1956.
1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress.
1920 – Charlie Parker, American musician.
1922 – Abdullah bin Ali Al-Khalili, Omani poet.
1925 – Ahmed Saeed, Egyptian broadcaster.
1933 – Jehan Sadat, wife of Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat.
1936 – John McCain, American politician.
1938 – Elliot Gould, American actor.
1939 – Rosemary Barakat, American judge of Syrian origin.
1946 – Dimitris Christofias, President of Cyprus.
1948 – Haitham Haqqi, Syrian film director, screenwriter and producer.
1949 – Mostafa Metwally, Egyptian actor.
1954 – Awatif Al-Salman, Iraqi actress.
1957 – Shiro Sagisu, Japanese composer.
1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer.
1960 – Zuhair Abdel Karim, Syrian actor.
1962 – Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor.
** Brian John Bisbee, Canadian historian.
1971 – Hani Nazer, Saudi actor. Carla Gugino, American actress.
1973 – Abdo Hakim, Lebanese actor and voice actor.
1976 – Stephen Carr, Irish footballer.
** Jone Dahl Thomasson, Danish footballer.
1977 – Basil Khayyat, Syrian actor.
** Manuel Belleri, Italian footballer.
1978 – Evelyn Hassan, Syrian actress. Celestin Babayaro, Nigerian footballer.
1982 – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer.
1984 – Karim Soltani, French footballer of Algerian origin.
1986 – Lea Michele, American actress.
1991 – Farah Al-Sarraf, Kuwaiti actress.
1993 – Liam Payne, English singer
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Death:
828 – Idris Al-Azhar, Commander of the Faithful in the Idrisid Emirate in Morocco – Fez.
1526 – Louis II, King of Hungary.
1904 – Murad V, 34th Ottoman Sultan.
1914 – Alexander Samsonov, Russian military commander.
1922 – Georges Séruel, French philosopher.
1935 – Queen Astrid, wife of King Leopold III of Belgium.
1947 – Manoleti, Spanish bullfighter.
1966 – Sayyed Qutb, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
1975 – Eamonn de Valera, Irish President.
** Saleh Al-Shahristani, Iraqi writer and diplomat.
1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress.
1987 – Naji Al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist.
** Lee Marvin, American actor.
1991 – Ibrahim Jalal, Iraqi actor.
2001 – Mokhles El-Behairy, Egyptian actor.
2003 – Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
2005 – Antoun Makdisi, Syrian thinker and philosopher.
2014 – Antoine Al-Qawwal, Lebanese poet, researcher and literary figure.
2016 – Firdous Al-Mamoun, Lebanese journalist and activist.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ World Day Against Nuclear Tests.
⬅️ Day of National Revolution against Nazis in Slovakia.
⬅️ The first day of Thoth, which is the first day of the Egyptian calendar.
⬅️ Commemoration of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
