It happened on this day, September 11th.
Events:
1118 Siege of the city of Tyre by the crusaders, defeat of the Fatimids and the Seljuks by the crusaders and capture of the city by the Franks.
1840 Britain bombards Beirut to force Muhammad Ali Pasha to leave the Levant.
1926 – Benito Mussolini is the victim of a failed assassination attempt.
1929 – Battle of Umm Radmah between the Najdi Brotherhood movement, composed of the Mutair tribe, on the one hand, and the Kingdom of Najd, Hijaz, and its annexes, supported by more than 4 tribes, on the other hand.
1930 The Stromboli volcano on the island of Sicily erupts, spewing two tons of lava, the most destructive eruption in its history.
1931 – Italians arrest Libyan mujahid Omar Al-Mukhtar while he is wounded and bleeding.
1941 – Nazi Germany declares war on the United States
(1945–Start in London of the “Conference of Five” between the United States, the Soviet Union, China, England and France
** Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo attempts suicide.
1950 – American Florence Chadwick becomes the first woman in the world to swim across the English Channel.
1953 – Sultan of Morocco Muhammad bin Arafa is the victim of a failed assassination attempt by Allal bin Abdullah.
1962 – The Soviet agency TASS announces for the first time the group of Soviet medium-range missiles that the Soviets have planted on Cuban territory.
1964 – Conclusion of the Arab Summit Conference in Alexandria, convened by President Gamal Abdel Nasser. This summit was the second Arab summit.
1971 Bahrain and Qatar join the League of Arab States.
1973 – A military coup in Chile led by army commanders, led by Augusto Pinochet, overthrows President Salvador Allende. The coup results in his death under mysterious circumstances in the besieged presidential palace.
1990 – US President George Bush delivers a televised speech threatening to use force to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait, which Iraq invaded on August 2.
1991 – The Soviet Union announces the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Cuba and ends economic aid.
2001 – An airstrike targets the World Trade Center building in New York and the Department of Defense building in Virginia, pointing the finger at al-Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
2005 – Israeli forces complete their unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
**A federal court judge in Oregon has announced the complete dismissal of all charges against the Al Haramain Charitable Foundation office in the state and the government is barred from filing future lawsuits on the same charges.
2015 – Singapore's ruling People's Action Party wins the general election, led by Lee Hsien Loong.
** A crane fell into the Grand Mosque in Mecca following violent storms that hit Mecca, and the Saudi Civil Defense announced the death of 107 people and the injury of 238 others.
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Births:
1816 – Carl Zeiss, German scientist and discoverer of the microscope and optical lenses.
1930 – Saleh Selim, Egyptian actor and footballer.
1935 – Tahani Rashed, Egyptian actress.
1943 – Khaled Abdullah Al-Saqabi, Kuwaiti actor.
** Khalifa Khalifoh, Kuwaiti actor.
1960 – Ashraf Abdel Baqi, Egyptian actor.
1965 – Bashar al-Assad, President of the Syrian Arab Republic.
1966 – Kazem Al-Saher, Iraqi singer.
1986 – Ismail Abdul Latif, Bahraini footballer.
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Death:
1873 – Sultan Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman, Moroccan sultan of the Alawite dynasty.
1929 – Abdul Aziz bin Faisal Al-Dawish, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan.
1971 – Nikita Khrushchev, President of the Soviet Union.
1973 – Salvador Allende, President of the Republic of Chile.
1999 – Field Marshal Muhammad Ali Fahmy, Egyptian soldier.
2004 – Maher Abdullah, Palestinian journalist and presenter.
2010 – Muhammad Fathi Othman, Egyptian Islamic thinker.
2018 – Kulsoom Nawaz, Pakistani politician and wife of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⏪ New Year in the Coptic calendar.
⏪ New Year in the Ethiopian calendar.
⏪ National holiday in Catalonia.
⏪ Teachers' Day in Latin America.
