It happened on this day, August 11th.
Events:
843 – Signing of the Treaty of Verdun, according to which the lands of the Frankish Empire are divided.
1798 – The “Battle of Salhiya” takes place near Belbeis between the Mamluks and the French countryside.
1807 – American Robert Fulton sails the Hudson River on the first steamboat.
1863 – The French protectorate is imposed on Cambodia.
1929 – Iraq and Iran sign a treaty of friendship, ending centuries of hostility between them.
1934 – Opening of “Alcatraz Prison” located on Alcatraz Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay.
1937 – Assassination of Lieutenant General Bakr Sidqi, the first military man to intervene in political affairs in Iraq.
(1945–Allied forces led by the United States accept Japan's surrender in World War II
1952 – The Jordanian National Assembly decides to end King Talal's term and proclaim his crown prince, Prince Hussein, constitutional King of Jordan.
1960 – Independence of the Republic of Chad from France.
1963 – Kuwaiti club Al-Qadisiyah is officially announced.
1970 – The Soviet Union launches the Cosmos 356 satellite, which orbits the Earth once every 92 minutes.
1999 – A total solar eclipse was observed in many parts of Europe and Central Asia.
2003 – Liberian President Charles Taylor resigns as president and flees to Nigeria due to increasing pressure from rebels and the international community.
✴️ NATO/NATO takes command of international forces to help bring peace to Afghanistan.
2008 – King Abdullah II of Jordan visits the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, becoming the first Arab leader to visit since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime.
2009 – Kuwait announces the arrest of six members of a six-person terrorist cell linked to al-Qaeda who were planning to attack a U.S. military base on Kuwaiti territory, the State Security building and other sensitive locations.
2012 – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney selects Rep. Paul Ryan to run with him for vice president.
2014 – Iraqi President Fuad Masum tasks Haider al-Abadi with forming the Iraqi government.
2015 – Spanish club Barcelona wins the European Super Cup for the fifth time in its history.
2017 – Collision in Egypt between a passenger train of the Express 13 Cairo – Alexandria train with the rear of train No. 571 Port Said – Alexandria near Khorshid station on the Cairo – Alexandria line, killing 49 people and injuring more than 100 others.
✴️ Official announcement of Uhuru Kenyatta's victory in the Kenyan presidential elections with 54% of the vote, after beating his competitor Raila Odinga, who obtained 45% of the vote.
2020 – The number of confirmed infections of the Corona pandemic exceeds 20 million people worldwide, including more than 736,000 deaths and approximately 12 million 281,000 recovered cases.
2021 – Algeria declares three days of mourning, after at least 65 people died following the second wave of wildfires that swept through the north of the country.
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Births:
1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Electoral Princess of the Palatinate.
1807 – David Acheson, President of the United States of America.
1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician.
1837 – Sadi Carnot, fourth president of the Third French Republic.
1856 – Ibrahim bin Muhammad Hadi al-Zanjani, Iranian Shia jurist, politician and poet.
1858 – Christian Ekman, Dutch physician who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1929.
1863 – Gaston Doumergue, French president.
1872 – Kijiro Shidehara, Japanese Prime Minister.
1886 – Muhammad Kamal Al-Masry, Egyptian actor known as Sharafantah.
1897 – Enid Blyton, English writer. Abd al-Rahman Faramarzi, Iranian academic, lawyer, journalist and poet.
1902 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist.
1921 – Alex Haley, American author.
1926 – Aaron Kluge, British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1982.
1932 – Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer and filmmaker.
** Peter Eisenman, American architect.
1933 – Fernando Arrabal, Jeje Grotowski, Polish theater director.
** Jerry Falwell, American pastor.
1938 – Najat Al-Saghira, Egyptian singer.
1942 – Ali Al-Buraiki, Kuwaiti actor.
1943 – Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan.
1950 – Steve Wozniak, American computer engineer.
1953 – Hulk Hogan, American wrestler and actor.
** Abdul Hamid Al-Rifai, Kuwaiti actor.
1956 – Pierre-Louis Lyons, French mathematician.
1965 – Viola Davis, American actress.
** Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer.
1966 – Mark Williams, South African footballer.
** Nigel Martin, English footballer.
1968 – Anna Gunn, American actress.
1969 – Carole Saqr, Lebanese singer.
1970 – Osama Hussein, Kuwaiti footballer.
1975 – Asma al-Assad, Syrian First Lady and wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
1976 – Ivan Cordoba, Colombian footballer.
1979 – Walter Ioffe, Ecuadorian footballer.
1982 – Velko Risser, Namibian footballer.
1983 – Jarrah Al-Dhafiri, Kuwaiti footballer.
** Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor.
1984 – Asmaa Saif, an Omani animator living in Kuwait.
1985 – Tony Qattan, Jordanian singer.
** Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan actress.
1991 – Cristian Tio, Spanish footballer.
1993 – Alyson Stoner, American actress.
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Death:
480 BC – Leonidas, King of Sparta.
1259 – Mongke Khan, Mongol commander.
1628 – Abd al-Rahman bin Issa al-Murshidi, Hijazi Muslim jurist and writer and one of the imams of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
1854 – Macedonio Meloni, Italian physicist.
1919 – Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist.
1936 – Blas Infante, Spanish politician.
1937 – Bakr Sidqi and Muhammad Ali Jawad were two Iraqi soldiers involved in a single assassination.
1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter.
1957 – Sayed Ali Sayed Suleiman Al-Rifai, Kuwaiti politician and economist.
1972 – Max Theiler, South African biologist, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1951.
2000 – Talal Maddah, Saudi singer.
2005 – Justus Akinbayo Akinsanya, British nurse and researcher.
2014 – Robin Williams, American actor.
2015 – Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor.
2017 – Abdul Hussein Abdul Reda, Kuwaiti actor.
2018 – Khadija Arafat, Palestinian philanthropist.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ National Day in Chad.
