It happened on this day, October 10
Events:
732 – Outbreak of the Battle of the Court of Martyrs, which takes place in southern France (between the Andalusian Arabs and the Franks)
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in France after returning from Egypt.
1870 – A declaration is issued to annex Rome to the Italian kingdom.
1920 – The Battle of Jahra takes place between the ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh Salem Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and the Muslim Brotherhood of Jahra.
1944 – Extermination of 800 Roma children in the “Nazi concentration camp Eschwitz”.
1950 – A political crisis erupts in Egypt after the revelation of the corrupt arms scandal, involving prominent political figures accused of purchasing corrupt arms and ammunition for the Egyptian army during the 1948 war, which contributed to the defeat of the Egyptian forces.
1956 – The Israeli occupying army and a group of settlers massacre unarmed Palestinian citizens in the village of Qalqilya, killing more than 70 people. 1970 – Independence of Fiji.
1980 – An earthquake in the Algerian state of Chlef kills around 3,000 people.
1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.
1988 – The new Egyptian Opera building opens on the island.
2001 – General Pervez Musharraf assumes the presidency of Pakistan.
2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign bilateral agreements to normalize relations after a century of hostility due to Armenian massacres resulting from the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces during World War I.
2012 – Japanese automaker Toyota announces the implementation of the world's largest car recall campaign since 1996.
2013 – The Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2013 was awarded to the writer Alice Munro.
🌟 The 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was awarded to Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai.
2014 – Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
🌟 Frenchman Jean Tirole wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for 2014
2015 – Two bomb attacks in the Turkish capital, Ankara, near a train station, killing at least 97 people and injuring more than 400.
2016 – It is announced that Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics for their contributions to contract theory.
2017 – Hurricane Nate hit several Central American countries, causing widespread flooding and collapse, killing at least 40 people.
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Births:
1470 – Sultan Selim I, Ottoman sultan.
1684 – Antoine Watteau, French painter.
1847 – Annie Besant, British writer.
1861 – Fritjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922
1866 – Adnan Al-Ghuraifi, Iraqi jurist, poet and writer.
1894 – Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, ruler of Bahrain.
1926 – Souad Hussein, Egyptian actress.
1935 – Khalil Al-Wazir, Palestinian politician.
1941 – Khalifa Al-Waqyan, Kuwaiti poet and writer.
1943 – Ibrahim Al-Aswad Benhamadi, contemporary Tunisian storyteller and intellectual.
1954 – Rekha, Indian actress.
** Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian singer.
1955 – Sheikh Muhammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1956 – Sherine, Egyptian actress.
1960 – Khadija Oraib, Dutch politician.
1968 – Reyam Al-Jazairi, Iraqi actress.
1980 – Nelly Makdisi, Lebanese singer.
1982 – Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer.
1983 – Mehyar Khaddour, Syrian actor.
1986 – Zeina Karam, Kuwaiti presenter and actress.
1991 – Muhammad Al Owais, Saudi footballer.
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Death:
732 – Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, Islamic leader.
833 – Al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph.
1659 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer.
1837 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher and economist.
1913 – Taro Katsura, Prime Minister of Japan.
1970 – Edouard Daladier, French Prime Minister.
2009 – Mohamed El-Sayed Saeed, Egyptian writer and political analyst.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ World Mental Health Day.
⏪National holiday in Fiji.
