It happened on this day, September 10th.
Events:
1526 The Ottoman army, led by Suleiman the Magnificent, enters Buda, the capital of Hungary, and Hungary becomes a subsidiary of the Ottoman Empire.
1844 – Signing of the “Treaty of Tangier” which ends the French war against Marrakech.
1919 – Signing of the “Treaty of Saint-Germain” between the Allies and Austria concerning minorities.
1923 – The Irish Free State joins the League of Nations as an independent state after the United Kingdom decides to grant independence to the southern part of the island of Ireland as the Irish Free State, following the Irish armed revolution.
1937 – The “Lyons Conference” is held to discuss piracy in the Mediterranean Sea during the Spanish Civil War.
1940 – German aircraft bomb Buckingham Palace, the seat of the King of the United Kingdom, as part of the mutual bombing raids between Germany and the United Kingdom during World War II.
1952 – Appointment of Muhammad Abdel Khaleq Hassouna to the Secretariat of the League of Arab States, succeeding Abdel Rahman Azzam, who resigned.
1961 – Joint Arab forces formed by decision of the League of Arab States arrive in Kuwait amid the crisis between Kuwait and Iraq.
1973 – The summit of the opposing countries was held in Cairo to discuss the role of the Eastern Front in the coming battle.
1990 – Iran agrees to resume diplomatic relations with Iraq after a break that lasted about 11 years since the start of the Iran-Iraq War in 1980.
✴️ Pope John Paul II inaugurates the “Church of Our Lady of Peace” in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, which is one of the largest churches in the world.
2002 – Switzerland, known as a neutral country, joins the United Nations after decades of abstention.
2003 – A young extremist man fatally stabbed Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh several times while she was shopping in a Stockholm shopping mall, leading to her death the next day.
2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile.
2009 – Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Din Hariri informs President Michel Suleiman of his apologies for the formation of the government, after the parliamentary minority rejected the formation of the national unity government that he presented, two and a half years after his nomination to form the government.
2012 – The Somali parliament elects Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as president, succeeding Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, after receiving 190 votes in the second round of elections, compared to Sharif Ahmed's 79 votes.
2015 – A team of researchers led by Lee Rogers announces the discovery of a new human species in South Africa, Homo naledi.
2017 – Hurricane Irma, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean history, hits the U.S. state of Florida after causing severe damage to the Caribbean islands.
2019 – 31 people were killed and around 100 others injured in a stampede during Ashura processions in the city of Karbala.
2021 – Announcement of the formation of the Lebanese government led by Najib Mikati, more than a year after the resignation of the previous government.
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Births:
1659 – Henry Purcell, English composer.
1775 – Murray Maxwell, British officer.
1890 – Franz Werfel, Austrian writer.
1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.
1893 – Johanna Bormann, a fierce Nazi guard who worked in concentration camps during World War II.
1915 – Muhammad Khalifa Al-Tunisi, Egyptian writer and translator.
1931 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor.
1937 – Jared Diamond, American biologist, physiologist and geographer.
1939 – Ali Al-Mufidi, Kuwaiti actor.
1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist.
** Fadia Okasha, Egyptian actress.
1943 – Horst Dieter Hötges, German footballer.
1946 – Michel Alliot-Marie, French politician.
1951 – Luc Melekamps, Belgian footballer.
1955 – Farida Seif Al-Nasr, Egyptian actress.
1960 – Colin Firth, English actor.
1972 – Salman Al-Qurini, Saudi footballer.
** Salwa Al-Mutairi, Kuwaiti political activist.
** Ghada Shuaa, Syrian track and field athlete.
** Ward Al Khal, Lebanese actress.
** Wafaa Al-Kilani, Egyptian media personality.
1976 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player.
1980 – Adama Coulibaly, Malian footballer.
1981 – Wang Dong, Chinese footballer.
1982 – Stephen McManus, Scottish footballer.
1983 – Fernando Beloski, Argentine footballer.
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Death
61 AH – Muslim bin Aqeel, Hussein bin Ali's cousin and his ambassador, were killed.
** The assassination of Hani bin Urwa, one of the companions of Ali bin Abi Talib, one of the notables of Kufa, and one of those who supported Muslim bin Aqeel and the Hussein revolution.
1797 – Mary Wellstonecraft, English writer.
1923 – Sayed Darwish, Egyptian musician.
1948 – King Ferdinand I, King of the Kingdom of Bulgaria.
1949 – Ahmed Salem, Egyptian pilot, director, actor and broadcaster.
1975 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937.
1979 – Augustino Neto, first president of Angola.
1981 – Riad Al-Sunbati, Egyptian musician and composer
1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952.
1985 – Jock Steen, Scottish footballer.
2006 – King Taofa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga.
2015 – Antoine Lahad, commander of the South Lebanese army, agent of Israel during its occupation of South Lebanon.
2021 – Dalal bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a Saudi princess.
** Yassef Saadi, Algerian resistance fighter and film actor.
** Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese politician who served as President of the Republic of Portugal.
** Charles Conan Bani, Ivorian politician who assumed the presidency of his country's government.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ World Suicide Prevention Day.
⬅️ National Day in Gibraltar (Gibraltar)
⬅️ Teachers' Day in China and Hong Kong.
