It happened on this day, April 26
events:
750 – The Abbasid army enters Damascus, the capital of the Umayyad state, 3 months after the Abbasid victory over Caliph Marwan bin Muhammad at the Battle of Al-Zab. The Umayyad era, which lasted 90 years, ended on this day. The Abbasids then moved the capital of the Islamic State from Damascus to Kufa and then to Baghdad.
1796 – An earthquake destroys much of the city of Latakia, killing 1,500 to 2,000 people out of 5,000.
1805 – American maritime forces, led by First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon, occupy the town of Derna, Libya, in their war against the governor of Tripoli, Yusuf Pasha al-Qara Manli.
1828 – The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and manages to expel it from the eastern shores of the Black Sea and occupies Romania, which was subordinate to the Ottomans.
1860 – Signature of the Treaty of Oued Ras between Morocco and Spain.
1865 – Federal cavalry forces capture John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in a barn in Virginia.
✴️ General Joseph Johnston of the Union forces surrenders his army to General William Sherman in the “Bennett” area near “Durham” in North Carolina during the American Civil War.
1909 – The Turkish Society of Union and Progress deposes Sultan Abdul Hamid II and installs his brother Muhammad Rashad as sultan in his place.
1926 – French High Commissioner Henri de Jouvenel appoints Ahmed Nami head of state and government in Syria.
1933 – Foundation of the German secret police/Gestapo.
1935 – Imam Muhammad Al-Ahmadi Al-Zawahiri resigns from the Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mosque.
1938 – Spanish fascists bombard the town of Guernica with 200 kg bombs and annihilate it. The bombing is led by General Davila with the help of the Nazi German Air Force.
1942 – A coal mine explosion at Honkiko in Manchuria kills 549 miners in the worst accident in mining history.
(1945–The Battle of Bautzen was the last successful German tank attack during World War II
1946 – 47 people are killed in the Naperville train disaster.
1954 – Start of the “Geneva Conference”, aimed at restoring peace in Indochina and Korea.
1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic joins the United Nations Educational, Teaching and Cultural Organization/UNESCO.
1963 – Libya's constitution changed from a three-state federal state as the United Kingdom of Libya to a single state as the Kingdom of Libya, and allowing women to vote.
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania.
1984 – Tanker War begins during the Iraq/Iran War after the destruction of the Saudi oil tanker “Ship Al Arab”.
1986 – Explosion of the Ukrainian Chernobyl reactor.
1994 – South Africa holds presidential elections for the first time that include whites and blacks.
2005 – Syria withdraws its last soldiers from its military forces operating in Lebanon under international pressure, ending 29 years of Syrian military presence in that country.
2010 – The Sudanese Electoral Commission announced President Omar al-Bashir's victory for another presidential term after receiving 68% of the vote. She also announced the victory of the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Salva Kiir, at the head of the party. government of South Sudan after obtaining 92.99% of the votes.
2015 – Mustafa Akinci is elected president of Northern Cyprus. Dozens of people were killed and dozens more kidnapped in Ishtabraq village in Jisr al-Shughur district of Idlib governorate after it fell to forces of the Syrian opposition of the Jaish al-Fatah alliance. Two days later, the Syrian Foreign Ministry announced a massacre in the village, killing around two hundred residents, and accused the Al-Nusra Front of being responsible.
2016 – Fire and destruction of all contents of the National Museum of Natural History in New Delhi.
2021 – Nomadland wins Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins for Best Actor and Frances McDormand for Best Actress at the 93rd Academy Awards.
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Births:
121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.
1624 – Muhammad bin Al-Hasan Al-Hurr Al-Amili, Lebanese Shia religious scholar, jurist, authority and hadith specialist.
1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian.
1785 – John James Audubon, French ornithologist and painter.
1798 – Delacroix, French painter.
1879 – Owen Richardson, British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928.
1888 – Mahmoud Fahmy Al-Nakrashi Pasha, Egyptian Prime Minister
1894 – Rudolf Hess, Nazi official.
1898 – Vicente Alexandre, Spanish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977.
1932 – Michael Smith, British-born Canadian chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993.
** Ihsan Al-Qalawi, Egyptian actress.
** Francis Lay, French composer and accordionist.
1933 – Arno Penzias, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
1942 – April Glaspie, American diplomat.
1946 – Abdulaziz Al-Mansour Al-Arfaj, Kuwaiti director.
1953 – Fifi Abdo, Egyptian actress and belly dancer.
1958 – Hala Fouad, Egyptian actress. 1963 – Jet Li, Chinese actor.
1965 – Lucilio Batista, Portuguese football referee.
** Kevin James, American actor.
1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian model, wife of American President Donald Trump and first lady of the United States.
** Sulafa Aweishq, Syrian actress.
1971 – Abeer Sabry, Egyptian actress.
1976 – Sulafa Mimar, Syrian actress.
1977 – Maggie Motran, Lebanese actress.
1980 – Hisham Maged, Egyptian actor and writer.
** Jordana Brewster, American actress.
** Marlon King, Jamaican footballer.
** Channing Tatum, American actor.
1981 – Mathieu Delpierre, French footballer.
1985 – John Isner, American football player.
1987 – Jorge Andujar Moreno, Spanish footballer.
1989 – Daesung, Korean singer, songwriter and actor.
1990 – Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer.
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Death:
1478 – Giuliano de Medici, Italian politician.
1879 – Edouard Léon Scott de Martinville, French inventor and writer.
1910 – Björnstern Björnsson, Norwegian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903.
1920 – Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician.
1938 – Edmund Husserl, German philosopher.
1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931.
1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and professor.
1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and producer.
1994 – Queen Zein Al-Sharaf, wife of King Talal of Jordan.
2004 – Dr Mohamed Beltagy Hassan, Egyptian writer.
2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, journalist and academic writer from Paraguay
2009 – Hans Holzer, American author and researcher.
2010 – Fred Halliday, Irish writer.
2013 – George Jones, American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
2016 – Saad bin Jadlan, Saudi poet and writer.
2019 – Abdul Latif Arabiyat, former Speaker of the Jordanian Parliament and former Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front Party.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ World Intellectual Property Day.
⬅️ Union day in Tanzania.
⬅️ Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl Tragedy in Belarus.
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