It happened on this day, September 15th.
Events:
625 AD – The marriage of Ali bin Abi Talib and Fatima Al-Zahra, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
1830 – Opening of the railway line between Liverpool and Manchester.
1864 – Signing of the September Agreement between the Italian government and Napoleon III
1894 – The Japanese inflict a major military defeat on China at the “Battle of Pingyang”.
1916 – Tanks are used for the first time in history by the British Army at the Battle of the Somme during World War I.
1928 – British physician Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1935 – Nazi leader Adolf Hitler issues a set of racist laws known as the Nuremberg Laws, which include stripping German Jews of citizenship and adopting the swastika flag as the official emblem of Nazi Germany.
1950 – The Battle of Inchon begins during the Korean War.
1952 – The United Nations agrees to annex Eritrea to Ethiopia after the end of British administration.
1963 – Ahmed Ben Bella is elected President of Algeria.
1974 – Publication of a decree creating the CIA.
1982 – Israel completely occupies the Lebanese capital, Beirut, following the assassination of elected president Bashir Gemayel.
1983 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin resigns from his post.
2009 – Release of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar Al-Zaidi, who became internationally famous after throwing his shoe at US President George W. Bush.
2011 – Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Egyptian businessman Ahmed Ezz to ten years in prison and revoked the licenses of two iron production companies he owned.
2015 – Malcolm Turnbull succeeds Tony Abbott as President of the Australian Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Australia.
✴️ Announcement of the results of the investigation into the fall of the crane in the Grand Mosque of Makkah, which denied criminal suspicions and confirmed that the cause of the accident was the exposure of the crane to strong winds.
✴️ The Kuwaiti Criminal Court has decided to execute seven people convicted in the Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque bombing case and acquitted fourteen others.
2017 – An explosion occurred at Parsons Green station in the British capital, London, injuring at least 22 people.
✴️ End the mission of the Cassini-Huygens probe in the Saturn system by voluntarily sending it into the heart of Saturn's atmosphere.
2019 – Tunisian voters go to the polls to choose the seventh president of the Tunisian Republic, with 26 candidates, in the second presidential election held after the revolution.
✴️ The Spanish national team won the 2019 Basketball World Cup final after beating the Argentine national team with a score of 95-75.
2020 – Signing of two agreements normalizing relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in Washington, DC.
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Births:
1254 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer.
1857 – William Howard Taft, President of the United States.
1858 – Charles de Foucauld, French Catholic cleric.
1885 – Inna Seidel, German poet and novelist.
1890 – Agatha Christie, English detective novelist.
1903 – Abdel Rahman Mami, Tunisian doctor and politician.
1904 – King Umberto II, King of the Kingdom of Italy.
1908 – Gerd Geiser, German writer.
1911 – Shafiq Nour El-Din, Egyptian actor.
1912 – Ismail Yassin, Egyptian actor.
1921 – Mustafa Mashhour, the fifth guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.
1925 – Hanna Jacir, Palestinian poet.
1926 – Imamura Shohei, Japanese film director.
1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969.
1930 – Jawaher, Lebanese belly dancer and actress.
1934 – Ezzat Al-Alayli, Egyptian actor.
1937 – Robert Lucas Jr., American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1995.
1939 – Saadia Al-Zaidi, Iraqi actress.
1941 – Florian Albert, Hungarian footballer.
1942 – Wen Jiabao, Chinese politician.
1943 – Mokhles El-Behairy, Egyptian actor.
1944 – Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager.
(1945-Prince Muqrinbin Abdulaziz Al Saud, advisor to the King of Saudi Arabia and his special envoy
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor. Oliver Stone, American director.
1951 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer.
1954 – Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist.
1960 – Manah Zaytoun, Egyptian actress.
** Emad Abdel Halim, Egyptian singer and actor.
1962 – Scott McNeil, Canadian voice actor.
1964 – Robert Vitso, Prime Minister of Slovakia.
1972 – Princess Letizia, Princess of Asturias, wife of Spanish Crown Prince Felipe.
1973 – Prince Daniel, Duke of Esthergotland, husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.
1974 – Saeed Mozaffarizadeh, Iranian football referee.
1977 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer and songwriter.
** Tom Hardy, British actor and producer.
1978 – Eidur Gudjónsson, Icelandic footballer.
1979 – Amy Davidson, American actress.
** Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer.
1980 – Erem Altug, Turkish actress.
1984 – Prince Harry, son of the Crown Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince Charles, and third in line to the British throne.
1985 – Yasmine Rais, Egyptian actress.
1987 – Allie Sissoko, French footballer.
1989 – Al Yazia Mohammed, Emirati singer.
1992 – Muhammad Al-Breik, Saudi footballer.
2000- Lee Young Bok, singer of the South Korean group Stray Kids
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Death:
668 – Emperor Constans II, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1206 – Ismail bin Ali Al-Hudhairi, Iraqi Arab linguist and poet.
1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer.
1885 – Elias Saleh, Syrian writer, historian and poet.
1926 – Rudolf Okun, German philosopher, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1908.
1946 – Moulay Mohammed, eldest son of the Moroccan Sultan Hassan I.
1973 – King Gustav VI Adolf, King of Sweden.
1984 – Prince Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Emir of the Najran region.
1985 – Wahib Al-Bitar, Palestinian government official, educator and poet.
2004 – Ibrahim Maraachli, Lebanese actor.
2007 – Hussein El-Sherbiny, Egyptian actor.
2016 – Wijdan Al-Naqeeb, Iraqi poet.
2017 – Souad Abdel Hamid, Egyptian author.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ International Day of Democracy.
⬅️ Independence Day in Honduras.
⬅️ Independence Day in Guatemala.
⬅️ National Book Day in Algeria.
⬅️ Engineers Day in India.
⬅️ National Day of Tebawi Culture in Libya
