It happened on this day, September 26th.
Events:
1087 – William II is crowned King of England, succeeding his father, William I, and reigns until 1100 AD.
1580 – British explorer Sir Francis Drake completes his circumnavigation of the world.
1618 – Signing of the Treaty of Ardabil between the Ottoman Empire and Iran.
1777 – British forces take control of Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War.
1807 – The British evacuate Alexandria after attempting to occupy it in order to secure a British base of operations against the Ottoman Empire.
1815 – The Russian Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Prussia form an alliance known as the Holy Alliance.
1937 – Assassination of the British governor of the Galilee district of Palestine, “Y. Andrews” at the hands of a group of supporters of Izz al-Din al-Qassam.
1938 – The Munich Meetings begin, continuing until September 30, during which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier give in to the demands of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
1947 – British Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones announces the decision to end the British Mandate for Palestine.
1950 – NATO decides to involve the Federal Republic of Germany in the defense of the West.
1962 – The North Yemeni army succeeds in overthrowing the monarchy under the leadership of Imam Muhammad al-Badr Hamid al-Din and declares the establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic led by Abdullah al-Sallal.
1970 – A new Jordanian ministry is formed, headed by Ahmed Touqan, former head of the Royal Court, and comprising six military personnel.
1971 – Qatar joins the United Nations.
1980 – The Security Council decides to stop the fighting between Iraq and Iran. Organize the first elections for the Shura Council in Egypt.
1984 – The UK and China agree to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
1985 – Tunisia breaks off diplomatic relations with Libya.
1996 – The Taliban movement extends its control over most parts of Afghanistan.
1997 – An earthquake hits the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi to collapse.
2002 – U.S. authorities arrest Syrian-Canadian Maher Arar based on false information about his links to al-Qaeda and send him to Syria, where he is imprisoned and tortured.
2004 – The Turkish parliament approves a reform of the penal code, removing the last obstacle to the European Commission publishing a report supporting the start of Turkey's accession negotiations with the European Union.
2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, killing 700 people.
2012 – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir agreed in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to sign a cooperation protocol that includes a number of issues.
2014 – Changing the clocks in Egypt for the fourth time in five months is an unprecedented event.
2017 – Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz issues a decree granting women the right to drive cars starting on 10 Shawwal 1439 AH, corresponding to June 24.
2018. Three members of the Israeli security forces were killed and a fourth injured in an attack launched by a young Palestinian at the entrance to the settlement “Har Adar”, northwest of Jerusalem.
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Births:
1181 – Francis of Assisi, Catholic saint.
1869 – Wesser McKay, American painter.
1878 – Edward Morcos, Syrian journalist, poet, writer and translator.
1886 – Archibald Hull, British physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1922.
1888 – Thomas Stearns Eliot, English poet and writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
1889 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher.
1897 – Pope Paul VI, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1898 – George Gershwin, American composer.
1923 – Soraya Helmy, Egyptian actress.
1925 – Marty Robbins, American singer.
1927 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and coach.
1932 – Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister.
1936 – Tadao Nagahama, Japanese film director and author.
1937 – Mehdi Karroubi, Iranian politician.
1956 – Linda Hamilton, American actress.
1968 – James Caviezel, American actor.
1973 – Muhammad Qanou, Syrian actor.
1976 – Michael Ballack, German footballer.
1981 – Serena Williams, American tennis player.
1982 – Hussein Al-Mahdi, Kuwaiti actor.
1983 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer.
1984 – Rana Shamis, Syrian actress.
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Death:
(1945–BélaBartókHungarian musician
1946 – Abd al-Rahim al-Ghazi, Syrian scout and playwright.
1952 – Jorge Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher, writer, poet and novelist.
** John Peterson, Finnish hammer thrower.
1972 – Sidqi Ismail, Syrian writer, novelist and playwright.
1976 – Leo Bold Ružička, Croatian chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.
1978 – Karl Mann Sigbahn, Swedish physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924.
1982 – Ahmed Hussein, Egyptian politician.
1990 – Alberto Moravia, Italian writer.
2002 – Abdul-Jabbar Daoud Al-Basri, Iraqi poet and novelist.
2008 – Paul Newman, American actor.
** Fawzi Abdel Hafez, Egyptian military.
2010 – Abdel Sabour Shaheen, Egyptian Islamic thinker.
2016 – Muhammad Rashad Al-Sharif, reciter of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
2019 – Jacques Chirac, fifth French president in the history of the Fifth Republic.
2020 – Riyad Al-Rayes, Syrian journalist, writer and editor.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ European Day of Languages.
⬅️ The anniversary of the Yemeni revolution of September 26.
⬅️ World Contraception Day.
