It happened on this day, September 13th.

Events:

1882 – Defeat of Ahmed Orabi at the Battle of Tell el-Kebir and beginning of the English occupation of Egypt.

1889 – The body of Youssef Bey Karam arrives in Zgharta in Mount Lebanon.

1936 – Major fighting breaks out in Jerusalem after the British army occupies the Buraq police station in the city.

1940 – Italian forces invade Egypt during World War II.

1943 – Chiang Kai-shek is inaugurated as President of Taiwan.

1955 – Diplomatic relations are established between West Germany and the Soviet Union for the first time since World War II.

✴️ The Secretary General of the New Free Constitutional Party, Saleh Ben Youssef, returns to Tunisia to announce his opposition to the internal independence agreements signed on June 3 of the same year. The party thus split into two, and the conflict between them turned into clashes and assassinations.

1968 – Albania withdraws from the Warsaw Pact.

1970 – Armed conflict between the Jordanian army and the Palestine Liberation Organization begins in what is known as the Black September events.

1988 – King Fahd bin Abdulaziz lays the foundation stone for the expansion of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

1993 – Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin accept the Oslo Accords granting Palestinians autonomy in Palestinian Authority territories.

2001 – U.S. authorities allow partial operation of civilian flights over U.S. airspace, after banning all airliners from flying for two days following the September 11 attacks.

2013 – All four accused in the Delhi gang rape case were sentenced to death by hanging.

2015 – Famous French journalist Clare Chazal ends her career presenting the news on TF1, reaching a record number of 10.2 million viewers during her last show.

✴️ Germany, Slovakia and Austria temporarily suspend the Schengen agreement on free movement.

2017 – Halimah Yacob wins the presidency of Singapore after being deemed the only qualified candidate for the position, becoming the first woman to serve as president of her country.

✴️ The General Assembly of the International Olympic Committee has decided to award the honour of organising the two Summer Games: 2024 to the city of Paris and 2028 to the city of Los Angeles.

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Births:

786 – Al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph.

1475 – Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal.

1819 – Clara Schumann, German musician.

1860 – General John Pershing, American soldier.

1863 – Arthur Henderson, British politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934.

1876 ​​- Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer.

1877 – Wilhelm Felchner, German traveler.

1886 – Robert Robinson, English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1947.

1887 – Leo Bold Ružička, Croatian chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.

1903 – Riad Al-Qasabji, Egyptian actor.

1916 – Roald Dahl, British novelist.

1924 – Ibrahim Saafan, Egyptian actor.

** Maurice Jarre, French musician.

1936 – Mona Nour El-Din, Tunisian actress.

1938 – John Smith, British politician.

1940 – Oscar Arias Sánchez, President of Costa Rica, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987.

1941 – Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President of Turkey.

** Tadao Ando, ​​Japanese architect.

** Ed Roberts, American engineer.

1944 – Jacqueline Bisset, English actress.

1952 – Bayouna, Algerian actress.

1967 – Michael Johnson, American track and field athlete.

1970 – Yuki Matsuoka, Japanese actress.

1971 – Goran Ivanisevic, Croatian tennis player.

1973 – Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer.

1975 – Abeer Ahmed, Egyptian actress working in Kuwait.

1978 – Meshal Al-Jasser, Kuwaiti actor.

1980 – Keith Andrews, Irish footballer.

** Yalda, an Iranian actress working in Kuwait.

1985 – Badr Al-Hamoud, Saudi film director.

1986 – Fouad Ali, Jordanian actor working in Kuwait.

1989 – Thomas Müller, German footballer.

1993 – Niall Horan, Irish singer.

1997 – Razan Al-Najjar, Palestinian nurse.

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Death:

81 – Emperor Titus, tenth Roman emperor.

1592 – Michel de Montaigne, French writer.

1598 – King Philip II, King of Spain.

1612 – Queen Karin Münsteder, wife of King Eric XIV of Sweden.

1936 – Muhammad bin Mutahhar al-Ghasham, Muslim scholar, Zaidi jurist and Yemeni judge.

1946 – Amon Goeth, German Nazi officer.

1949 – August Krug, Danish physician, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1920.

1957 – Siraj Mounir, Egyptian actor.

1959 – Muhammad Al-Qazalji, Iraqi scholar and jurist.

1971 – Lin Biao, Chinese politician and military man.

1996 – Tupac Shakur, American singer and actor.

1998 – George Wallace, American politician.

2006 – Ann Richards, American politician.

2012 – Ismail Abdel Hafez, Egyptian director.

2017 – Khalil Al-Abwaini, Jordanian poet.

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Public holidays and occasions:

⬅️ International Law Day.

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