It happened on this day, October 12
Events:
680 AD – End of the Battle of Karbala with the killing of Imam Hussein bin Ali bin Abi Talib, his family and his companions.
1459 The Battle of Ludford Bridge takes place, one of the battles of the Wars of the Roses, which ends with the victory of the Lancastrian army led by Margaret of Anjou over the army of the York family.
1492 – Christopher Columbus' voyage reached the Bahamas, in the Caribbean region, close to America, and it was thought at this time that the voyage would reach India.
1898 – Creation of the commune of Mater in Tunisia.
1970 – Greece and the United States sign a cooperation and friendship agreement under which Greece allows the United States to establish military bases on its territory.
1973 – The Israeli Air Force loses seven of its planes at Port Said after being surprised by Egyptian air defense missiles which it claimed had completely wiped it out the day before. Golda Meir compares Egypt's missile battalions to a mushroom nest.
1978 – First session of Egyptian-Israeli peace talks begins in Washington.
1987 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is sworn in as Prime Minister of Tunisia.
1990 – Assassination of the President of the Egyptian People's Assembly, Rifaat al-Mahjoub, by shooting as his convoy passed the “Semiramis Hotel” in Cairo.
1992 – An earthquake struck Cairo with a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale, killing approximately three hundred and seventy people and injuring more than three thousand people. The epicenter of the earthquake was southwest of Cairo, near Fayoum and Giza.
1999 – General Pervez Musharraf, commander of the Pakistani army, overthrows the government of Nawaz Sharif in a military coup.
2000 – Attack targeting the American destroyer “Cole” off the Yemeni coast, killing 17 and wounding 39, and Al-Qaeda is accused of having carried out the operation.
2002 – Two nightclubs are bombed in the Indonesian city of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring 300 others.
2005 – Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan commits suicide in a library after giving a lecture on Lebanese radio.
2011 – Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of the Sultanate of Oman, inaugurates the “Royal Opera House” in Muscat, making it the first opera house in the Gulf region.
2012 – The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union for its efforts to promote peace and reconciliation and promote human rights on the European continent.
2013 – The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
2015 – The Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to British Scot Angus Deaton for his “analysis of consumption, poverty and well-being”. American company Dell acquires EMC for $67 billion, becoming the world's largest transaction. the history of technology companies.
2018 – A Turkish court orders the release of American pastor Andrew Bronson and overturns his travel ban, after Turkish authorities arrested him since late 2016 during purges that took place after the country's attempted coup , and that he was accused of belonging to the organization of parallel entities led by Fethullah Gulen.
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Births:
1921 – Arthur Clokey, American animator.
1949 – Bo Carlsson, Swedish football referee.
**Carlos, a global terrorist of Venezuelan origin.
1957 – Tarek El-Desouki, Egyptian actor.
1977 – Bashar Abdullah, Kuwaiti footballer.
1985 – Yasmine Niazi, Egyptian singer.
1986 – Sergio Peter, German footballer.
1989 – Muhammad Marzouq, Kuwaiti footballer.
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Death:
680 AD – Al-Hussein bin Ali bin Abi Talib, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, with his family and companions during the Battle of Karbala. .
1915 – Edith Cavell, British nurse.
1990 – Rifaat Al-Mahjoub, president of the Egyptian People's Assembly.
2001 – Khaled Saud Al-Zaid, Kuwaiti writer and historian.
2002 – Muhammad Abbas Al-Daraji, Iraqi poet, writer and journalist.
2005 – Laure Daccache, Lebanese singer.
** Ghazi Kanaan, Syrian Interior Minister.
2008 – Muhammad Jawad Al-Sahlani, Iraqi-Syrian Muslim jurist and poet.
2011 – Dennis Ritchie, American scientist in the field of computer science.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ National holiday in Spain.
⏪Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea.
⏪ Mother's Day in Malawi.
⏪ Children's Day in Brazil.
⏪ Columbus Day in the United States.
⏪ Teachers' Day in Saudi Arabia.
