It happened on this day, October 27
Events:
1913 Kuwait's leader, Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, grants oil extraction concession to Britain.
1951 – Abolition of the Egyptian/British bilateral agreement for Sudan.
1960 – End of the Cuban Missile Crisis after Presidents John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw missiles from Cuba on the condition that the United States did not invade it and to get rid of ballistic missiles located in Turkey.
1962 – The Constitutional Committee of the Kuwaiti Constituent Assembly holds its last session under the chairmanship of Council President Abdul Latif Muhammad Al-Ghanim and submits the draft constitution to the Council for discussion and approval.
1990 – General Michel Aoun, Prime Minister of Lebanon's military government and commander of rebel forces, announces his surrender, ending the Lebanese Civil War 15 years after its outbreak.
1991 – Turkmenistan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
🌟 Organize the first democratic elections in Poland.
1998 – Gerhard Schröder is elected German chancellor.
2005 – Riots break out in Paris after the death of two African Muslims.
2010 – Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi assumes leadership of the Ras Al Khaimah Emirate in the United Arab Emirates following the deaths of Sheikh Saqr bin Muhammad Al Qasimi and the emirate's former crown prince, Sheikh Khalid bin Saqr Al Qasimi, announces in an online video message that he is the new leader of the emirate, as the eldest son of the previous leader.
2011 – King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud appoints Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister, succeeding former Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
2013 – German racing driver Sebastian Vettel wins the Formula 1 world championship in the 2013 season for the fourth time in a row.
2016 – Yazidi human rights activists Nadia Murad and Lamia Haji Bashar won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
2017 – Catalonia unilaterally declares its secession from Spain as an independent republic.
2018 – Thai businessman and owner of Leicester City Club Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died in a helicopter crash at the King Power Stadium.
🌟 A shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, killing 11 people and injuring six others.
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Births:
1728 – James Cook, English sailor and explorer.
1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906.
1920 – KR Narayanan, former President of India.
1922 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, 56th and 59th president of Venezuela
1923 – Lola Sedqi, Egyptian actress.
1925 – Warren Christopher, former United States Secretary of State.
1930 – Imran Bahr, Egyptian actor.
1931 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer.
1936 – Aida Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actress.
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1957 – Glen Hoddle, English footballer and manager.
1963 – Nadia Mostafa, Egyptian singer.
1971 – Elissa, Lebanese singer.
1974 – Ayman Halawa, Palestinian mujahid, commander of the Al-Qassam brigades in Nablus, and his third engineer.
1976 – Ahmed El-Tohamy, Egyptian actor.
1977 – Jiri Jarosek, Czech footballer.
1978 – Suzanne Skaff, Syrian actress.
1983 -Kivanç Tatlitug, Turkish model and actor.
** Yacoub Al-Taher, Kuwaiti footballer.
1992 – Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer.
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Death:
1331 – Abu Al-Fida, king of Hama. 1505 – Tsar Ivan III, Tsar of Tsarist Russia.
1968 – Lise Meitner, Swedish physicist.
1980 – John Van Vleck, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977.
1992 – David Bohm, American physicist.
2010 – Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, ruler of the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
** Nestor Kirchner, president of Argentina.
2016 – Shuaib Al-Arnaout, Syrian scholar and hadith specialist.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Independence Day in Turkmenistan.
⏪ Science Day in Greece.
