It happened on this day, November 13

Events:

1002 – King Ethel Reid II of England issues an order to kill all Danes in England, known as the St. Bryce's Day Massacre.

1918 – The Russian communist government cancels the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with the Axis powers during World War I.

✴️ Allied forces occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

1929 – The Indonesian Communist Party starts a revolution against Dutch occupation in West Java.

1935 – A popular uprising breaks out in Egypt against the British occupation and the government led by Muhammad Tawfiq Nassim Pasha, five years after the government of Ismail Sidqi abolished the “1923 Constitution”, which guaranteed great power to the people. instead, he issued the “Constitution of 1930”, which granted the king the power to appoint and dismiss governments.

1966 – The Battle of Al-Samu breaks out between the Israeli and Jordanian armies, following the death of three Israeli soldiers by a landmine.

1974 – Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat addresses the United Nations in a historic speech.

1979 – Former actor and California governor Ronald Reagan announces his candidacy for the United States presidential elections to be held in November 1980.

1990 – Sultan Al-Ajlouni led an operation in an Israeli camp near the Jordanian border, which resulted in the death of an Israeli border guard and the capture of the Sultan himself.

✴️ Writing the first known page on the Internet.

1995 – Five Americans and two Indians are killed in a truck bomb explosion outside a U.S.-run Saudi National Guard training center in Riyadh, and a group called the Islamic Reform Movement for Change claims responsibility. responsibility for the incident.

2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush signs an executive order authorizing military tribunals to try foreigners suspected of having ties to terrorist acts against the United States.

2008 – Ousted Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallah was released, placed under house arrest in his hometown and allowed to meet anyone he wanted.

2011 – Italian President Giorgio Napolitano appoints Mario Monti as prime minister, a day after Silvio Berlusconi resigned.

2015 – Paris witnesses several simultaneous attacks and bombings, killing more than 120 people in several neighborhoods of the French capital.

2017 – Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai arrives in Riyadh in the first official visit by a Maronite patriarch to Saudi Arabia and the second visit by a Christian cleric in about 40 years.

2019 – The resumption of Lebanese demonstrations and their multiplication in various regions following a televised press conference with the President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, which the demonstrators considered provocative towards the population, and after the assassination of one of the demonstrators in the hands of a military escort.

✴️ Rashid Ghannouchi, leader of the Ennahdha Islamic movement in Tunisia, was elected president of Parliament.

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Births:

354 – Augustine, bishop of North Africa.

1312 – King Edward III, king of England.

1504 – Philip I, pioneer of the Protestant Reformation.

1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer.

1893 – Edward Doisy, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1943.

1899 – Huang Xianfan, Chinese historian.

1920 – Abd al-Rahman al-Khamisi, Egyptian poet.

1923 – Mona, Egyptian actress.

1936 – Salim Kallas, Syrian actor.

1939 – Karel Bruckner, Czech footballer and coach.

** Samir Mokbel, Lebanese politician and businessman.

1952 – Art Malik, British actor.

1955 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress.

1967 – Juhi Chawla, Indian actress.

1969 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor.

** Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch politician of Somali origin.

1975 – Ivica Dragotinovic, Serbian footballer.

** Quem, Portuguese footballer.

1980 – Lara Habib, Lebanese journalist.

** Monique Coleman, American actress.

1984 – Lucas Barrios, Paraguayan footballer.

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Death:

899 – Abu Muhammad bin Qutaybah al-Dinuri, writer, jurist, hadith scholar and Muslim historian.

1093 – Malcolm III, King of Scotland.

1143 – Fulk, king of the kingdom of Jerusalem.

1460 – Henry the Sailor, Portuguese prince and explorer.

1770 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1868 – Gioacchino Rossini, Italian musician.

1957 – Antonin Zapotocki, Czechoslovakian communist politician.

1967 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist.

1974 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian director and actor.

2002 – Juan Alberto Secavino, Uruguayan footballer.

2005 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican wrestler.

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Holidays and Occasions:

⬅️ Feast of Saint John Chrysostom.





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