It happened on this day, August 23rd.
Events:
1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran was fought between the Ottomans and the Safavids. It was one of the decisive battles in the history of the Ottoman Empire, in which Sultan Selim I was able to defeat the Safavids under the leadership of Ismail I and occupy their territory; the capital, Tabriz, and the areas of control of Persian Iraq, Azerbaijan, Kurdistan and northern Arab Iraq.
1821 – Mexico gains independence from Spain.
1833 – Slavery is banned in the English colonies.
1839 – Britain captures Hong Kong.
1889 – First radio transmission from ship to shore.
1921 – Declaration of monarchy in Iraq and installation of Faisal, son of Sharif Hussein, as king.
1939 – Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin sign a non-aggression pact and divide the Baltic states, Finland and Poland.
1982 – Bashir Gemayel is elected President of the Lebanese Republic.
1990 – The German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany announce their intention to unite on October 3 of that year.
✴️ Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears on television with Western hostages, sparking global anger.
✴️ Armenia unilaterally declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 – The Soviet Union announces the disbandment of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence service, after its involvement in a failed coup.
2000 – A Gulf Air Airbus A320 plane from Cairo crashed into the waters of the Persian Gulf near Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.
2005 – A passenger plane crashes in Peru, killing all 51 passengers and crew.
2008 – Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama chooses Senator Joe Biden as his running mate if he wins.
2013: 49 people were killed and more than 800 injured in two bomb attacks targeting two mosques in the Lebanese city of Tripoli.
2015 – ISIS bombed the ancient Canaanite temple of Baalshamin, located in the city of Palmyra.
2019 – Brazil's National Institute for Space Research announces that it has controlled more than 39,000 fires in the Amazon rainforest since last January.
2020 – The number of confirmed infections of the Corona pandemic exceeds 23 million people worldwide, including more than 800,000 deaths and approximately 14,842,000 recovered cases.
✴️ German Bayern Munich wins the Champions League for the sixth time in its history after a 1-0 victory over Paris Saint-Germain in the final.
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Births:
1740 – Emperor Ivan VI, Emperor of the Russian Empire.
1754 – King Louis XVI, King of France.
1906 – Heidi Tamzali, Tunisian actress.
1910 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer.
1913 – Abdel Salam Al-Nabulsi, Lebanese actor of Palestinian origin.
1914 – Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Deputy Ruler of Kuwait from 1950 to 1961.
1921 – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1972.
1923 – Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi writer.
** Edgar Codd, British computer scientist.
1924 – Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1987.
1932 – Colonel Houari Boumediene, second president of Algeria.
1933 – Robert Corll, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996.
1934 – Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, former Crown Prince, former Second Deputy Prime Minister and former Interior Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1944 – Mohsen Zayed, Egyptian writer.
1949 – Shelley Long, American actress.
1951 – Queen Noor Al Hussein, wife of King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan.
** Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya.
1952 – Carlos Santillana, Spanish footballer.
1969 – Tariq Al-Nasser, Jordanian musician.
1971 – Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer.
1974 – Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.
1975 – Mushira Ahmed, Egyptian actress.
1976 – Scott Caan, American actor.
1977 – Kenta Miyake, Japanese voice actor.
1981 – Stéphane Lepuy, Ivorian footballer.
** Carlos Cuellar, Spanish footballer.
1984 – Glen Johnson, English footballer.
1992 – Leonard Sawah, German footballer.
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Death:
30 BC – Ptolemy XV, the last king of the Ptolemaic pharaohs.
93 – Niias Julias Agricola, Roman commander.
634 AD – Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, the first of the Rightly Guided Caliphs.
1305 – William Wallace, Scottish knight.
1806 – Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist.
1900 – Kiyotaka Kuroda, Prime Minister of Japan.
1920 – Muhammad Magdy Pasha, Egyptian jurist.
1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor.
1927 – Saad Zaghloul, Egyptian Prime Minister.
1965 – Mustafa El Nahhas, Egyptian Prime Minister.
1969 – Ahmed Badrakhan, Egyptian film director.
1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972.
1984 – Nadim Al-Hakim, Lebanese military officer and commander.
1997 – John Kendrew, British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962.
2000 – Sami Al-Manayes, Kuwaiti politician.
2008 – Thomas Weller, American virologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1954.
2018 – Yasser Al-Masry, Jordanian actor.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ International Day for the Remembrance and Abolition of the Slave Trade.
⬅️ Liberation Day in Romania.
⬅️ Flag Day in Ukraine.
