It happened on this day, September 17th.
Events:
1171 – Egypt returns to the Abbasid Caliphate after the death of the last Fatimid caliph, Al-Adid li-Din Allah.
1939 – Soviet forces invade eastern Poland and seize Polish lands left by the Germans during World War II.
1925 – The Battle of Al-Musayfra takes place between Syrian revolutionaries and French forces led by Colonel Charles Andrea in the village of Al-Musayfra in Houran, southern Syria.
1948 – The Stern Organization assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, appointed by the United Nations to reconcile Arabs and Jews in Palestine.
1961 – Execution of former Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes.
1962 – Khaled Al-Azm forms a new Syrian government, which lasts until the coup of March 8, 1963.
1971 – Egypt shoots down an Israeli Boeing 377 Stratocruiser spy plane over the Sinai.
1974 – Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea Bissau join the United Nations.
1978 – Signing of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.
1991 – North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia join the United Nations.
1997 – 11 foreign diplomats are killed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including deputy international envoy Gebbru Wagner, when their plane crashes near Sarajevo.
2008 – 16 Yemeni citizens are killed in a car bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in the capital, Sanaa.
2010 – Israel assassinates Iyad Shalbaya, a leader of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, at his home in the Nour Shams camp in Tulkarem.
2016 – International coalition aircraft bombed one of the Syrian army's positions in Jabal al-Tharda, near Deir ez-Zor airport, causing losses in human life and equipment among its forces.
✴️ A bomb explosion occurred in the Manhattan district of New York in the United States, injuring 29 people.
2018 – Russian-Turkish agreement to establish a demilitarized zone 20 kilometers deep south of Idlib governorate and north of Hama governorate in Syria, and to conduct joint patrols to monitor the implementation of the agreement.
✴️ Israeli raids target several Syrian sites in the western and central regions. During the raids, Syrian air defenses mistakenly shot down a Russian military plane heading towards the Hmeimim base, killing 15 Russian soldiers on board.
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Births:
1205 – Ibn al-Dhahir al-Irbilli, Hanafi jurist and Iraqi writer.
1677 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist and chemist.
1826 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician.
1869 – Christian Louis Lange, Norwegian politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921.
1917 – Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hosary, Egyptian reciter of the Quran.
1918 – Chaim Herzog, President of Israel.
1922 – Augustino Neto, President of Angola.
1923 – Hank Williams, American singer.
1929 – Nadia El-Sabaa, Egyptian actress.
1932 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, sixth Emir of Qatar.
(1945-PhilJacksonAmerican basketball player and coach
1950 – Narendra Modi, Indian politician and Prime Minister.
1953 – Salwa Al-Qatrib, Lebanese actress.
1960 – Abla Kamel, Egyptian actress.
1963 – Rami Saari, Israeli poet, translator and literary critic.
1965 – Yuji Naka, Japanese video game designer.
1968 – Anastasia, American singer.
1970 – Seydou Traoré, Burkinabe footballer.
1977 – Simone Perrotta, Italian footballer.
1981 – Bakary Koné, Ivorian footballer.
1983 – Hoda Salah, Tunisian actress.
** Sanaya Irani, Indian actress.
1985 – Tomas Berdych, Czech tennis player.
** John Walker, American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
1987 – Paul Huntington, English footballer.
1992 – Rawan Al-Sayegh, Iraqi actress working in Kuwait. Justice of the Dead
717 – Suleiman bin Abdul Malik, Umayyad caliph.
1574 – Pedro Menéndez de Aviles, Spanish explorer and sailor.
1836 – Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist.
1905 – Abbas Kashif Al-Ghita, Iraqi jurist, poet and writer.
1920 – Muhammad Taqi Al-Shirazi, Twelver Shia religious scholar.
1948 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish count and diplomat.
1961 – Adnan Menderes, Turkish Prime Minister.
1992 – Aisha Ibrahim, Kuwaiti actress. Hrivelto Martins, Brazilian composer.
1994 – Karl Popper, English philosopher.
1996 – Spiro Agnew, American politician.
2006 – Jassim Hamad Al-Saqr, Kuwaiti economist and politician.
2010 – Iyad Shalbaya, leader of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
2012 – Musaed bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Emir of the Tabuk region.
2020 – Adel Mohsen, popular Iraqi poet.
2021 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, tenth president of Algeria since its formation and seventh president since independence.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Heroes Day in Angola.
⬅️ Constitution Day in the United States.
