It happened on this day, August 8th.
events:
611 AD – The revelation of the Quran and the mission of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, according to the opinion of Al-Mubarak Fouri.
1521 – The Ottomans take control of the city of Belgrade under Suleiman the Magnificent. It is considered the key to Central Europe and the owner of the most powerful fortress on the Ottoman-Hungarian border. 1441, 1456 and 1492, but they were able to capture it only under the reign of the Magnificent.
1786 – Traveler Jean Palma reaches the summit of the Alps.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte leaves France for exile on Saint Helena, one of the isolated islands in the Atlantic Ocean, where he remains until his death in 1821.
1940 – The Battle of Britain begins in World War II, with the aim of occupying it.
1942 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issues a decision appointing General Bernard Montgomery as commander of the Eighth Army.
(1945–The Soviet Union declared war on Japan and invaded Manchuria at the end of World War II
1955 – The first such conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland, on the peaceful uses of atomic energy.
1964 – Turkish planes attack the island of Cyprus, home to a Muslim minority of Turkish origin.
1966 – The mining sector in Algeria is nationalized by foreign companies, 4 years after independence.
1970 – Start of the implementation of the ceasefire agreement on the Egyptian-Israeli front, which lasts 90 days according to the content of the Rogers Initiative.
1974 – US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation following the Watergate scandal.
1983 – 30 prisoners escape from the Israeli Ansar prison camp in occupied southern Lebanon.
1984 – Two gunmen from the People's Mujahedin Movement of Iran hijack a plane carrying pilgrims to Rome, where they are traveling.
1985 – 17 Americans are killed or injured in a car bomb explosion at the “Rhein-Main base” in Frankfurt.
1988 – Iran accepts “UN Resolution No. 598” of 1987 calling for a ceasefire between it and Iraq to end the war between them that began on September 22, 1980.
1990 – The Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council decides on an irreversible integration unity with Kuwait. This decision comes minutes after the Iraqi News Agency reported that the interim Free Kuwaiti government led by Alaa Hussein, formed by Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait, had asked Iraq to achieve an integration unity between the two countries and dissolve the Republic of Kuwait.
1991 – Release of British hostage, photojournalist John McCarthy, kidnapped in West Beirut since April 17, 1987.
1998 – Ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist were killed in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif by Taliban militiamen who attacked the Iranian consulate in the city during fighting between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance.
2001 – Australian Hollywood star Nicole Kidman and American star Tom Cruise divorce.
2008 – Georgia launches a military attack on the provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, after which Russian forces launch a swift counterattack against Georgia, leading to an eight-day war between them.
✴️ Opening of the Summer Olympics in Beijing.
2012 – The National Transitional Council in Libya hands over power to the General National Congress elected on July 7.
2016 – A suicide bombing took place in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 93 people and injuring more than 120.
2017 – At least 19 people were killed and 247 injured after an earthquake struck the mountainous region of Jiuzigou in southwest China.
2019 – The Indian parliament abolishes the autonomy of the Indian part of the disputed Kashmir region with Pakistan, and Islamabad expels the Indian ambassador and discusses ways to respond through the United Nations, with the UN Secretary-General calling for “the greatest possible degree of restraint.”
✴️ An explosion at the Russian military base in Nyonoksa, near the city of Severodvinsk, caused nuclear radiation emissions and killed five people.
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Births:
1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary.
1901 – Ernest Orlando Lawrence, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939.
1902 – Paul Dirac, English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933.
1921 – Webb Pierce, American singer.
1922 – Alberto Granado, Argentine/Cuban physician and writer.
1925 – Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1931 – Roger Penrose, English mathematical physicist.
1933 – Abu Bakr Ezzat, Egyptian actor.
1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor.
1939 – Kamal Al-Helou, Lebanese actor.
1944 – Mugihito, Japanese voice actor.
1951 – Mohamed Morsi, fifth President of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Ijlal Zaki, Egyptian actress.
1954 – Wassini Al-Araj, Algerian writer
1957 – Hosemi Goda, Japanese voice actor.
1959 – Moza Al-Misnad, wife of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
1976 – Tani Cypress, American actress.
1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer.
1981 – Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player.
1985 – Yousra El Lozy, Egyptian actress.
1998 – Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer.
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Death:
1002 – Muhammad bin Abi Amer, founder of the Amirite dynasty in Andalusia.
1827 – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1943 – Abdul Aziz bin Saleh Al-Alji, Saudi Maliki jurist, poet and merchant.
1977 – Edgar Adrian, British physician who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1932.
1985 – Louise Brooks, American actress.
1990 – Sanaa Al-Foudari, Kuwaiti activist against the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
1992 – Sayyed Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Shiite religious authority.
1996 – Neville Mott, English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977.
2005 – Ahmed Deedat, Indian/South African Islamic preacher.
2010 – Ahmed Al-Baghdadi, Kuwaiti thinker and academic.
2011 – Hend Rostom, Egyptian actress.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Father's Day in Taiwan.
⬅️ Feast of Saint Severus of Vienna.
