It happened on this day, December 11
Events:
1792 – Start of the trial of Louis XVI, King of France, accused of treason by the National Convention during the French Revolution.
1936 – King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom abdicates to marry American Wallis Simpson.
1941 – Germany and Italy declare war on the United States during World War II.
1947 – Creation of UNICEF, the international organization for the welfare of children.
1948 – The Israeli government decides to consider West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
💥 The publication of “Security Council Resolution No. 194” stipulating the internationalization of the city of Jerusalem and the creation of the International Conciliation Committee for the Palestinians.
1957 – A United Nations resolution is issued stipulating the right of people to self-determination.
1960 – December 11, 1960 demonstrations in Algeria against the French occupation.
1964 – Che Guevara speaks before the United Nations General Assembly in New York. 1967 – George Habash announces the creation of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
1972 – Apollo 17 astronauts land on the Moon.
1974 – The United Nations Decolonization Commission refers the question of Western Sahara to the International Court of Justice.
1981 – The United Nations General Assembly chooses Peruvian diplomat Javier Pérez de Cuellar as Secretary-General of the United Nations, to take office on January 1, 1982.
💥 International boxer Muhammad Ali Clay plays his last matches then retires from boxing.
1994 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian forces to move toward Chechnya in what is known as the First Chechen War.
1997 – The Kyoto Agreement is opened for signature.
2003 – A postal package sent to the editor-in-chief of the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Seyassah, “Ahmed Al-Jarallah”, exploded. The explosion slightly injured his office manager.
2007 – Two car bombs explode in Algeria, the first near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the second targeting the headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Algiers. The two explosions left at least 62 dead and dozens injured, in addition to material damage. .
2011 – The Egyptian Consultative Council elected in its first session Mansour Hassan as president, Abu Al-Ela Madi and Sameh Ashour as deputies, and Mohamed Nour Farhat as secretary general of the Council.
2013 – Pope Francis was elected “Person of the Year” 2013 by the American magazine Time.
💥 A massacre took place in the town of Adra al-Amalia in rural Damascus, in which 32 civilians were killed by Syrian opposition forces, after the town was stormed by fighters from the Army of Islam and the Al-Nusra Front. Dozens of people have been kidnapped and taken to opposition-controlled areas.
2015 – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh announces his country's transformation into an Islamic republic, a move he plans to rid the Gambia of its colonial past.
2016 – 25 people were killed and 49 others injured following the bombing of the Petrine Church in the Abbasiya neighborhood of Cairo.
2017-25 Huge forest fires in Southern California destroyed 1,201.92 km2 of forests, forced about 212,000 people to flee their homes, and caused an estimated $3.138 billion in damage.
💥 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces from the Hmeimim base the start of the partial withdrawal of his country's forces from Syria.
2018 – A shooting in a market in the French city of Strasbourg left 3 people dead and 12 injured.
2019- Saudi Aramco becomes the world's most expensive company, with a value exceeding $1.88 trillion, on the first day of listing its shares on the Saudi financial market, pushing the latter to rank ninth among financial markets worldwide.
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Births:
1475 – Pope Leo X, pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1781 – David Brewster, Scottish physicist.
1801 – Christian Dietrich Grabe, German writer.
1803 – Shihab al-Din Mahmoud al-Alusi, Iraqi interpreter, hadith scholar, jurist, writer and poet.
** Hector Berlioz, French musician.
1810 – Alfred de Musset, French poet.
1843 – Robert Koch, German physician and bacteriologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1905.
1882 – Max Born, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954.
1908 – Amon Goeth, Nazi German soldier and director of the Plaszow genocide camp.
1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.
1912 – Adel Taqi al-Din, Lebanese lawyer and judge.
1918 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970.
1919 – Abdel Hakim Amer, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces.
1925 – Paul Greengard, American doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2000.
1943 – John Kerry, American politician.
1953 – Randa Al-Chahal, Lebanese director.
1954 – Jermaine Jackson, American singer.
1960 – Lucy, Egyptian actress and belly dancer.
1965 – Firas Ibrahim, Syrian actor.
1972 – Sami Al Jaber, Saudi footballer.
1980 – Feryal Youssef, Tunisian actress.
1981 – Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer.
** Mohamed Zidan, Egyptian footballer.
1984 – Leyton Baines, English footballer.
1986 – Ali Maqseed, Kuwaiti footballer.
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Death:
1221 – Al-Afdal Shahenshah, minister of the Fatimid caliphs Al-Mustansir Billah, Al-Musta'li Billah and commander of the laws of God.
1241 – Ogedai Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1282 – Michael VIII Palaiologos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1840 – Emperor Kōkaku, emperor of Japan.
1904 – Jawad Muhyiddin, Iraqi Muslim jurist and poet.
1938 – Christian Louis Lange, Norwegian politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921.
(1945-Charles FabryFrench physicist
(1945-HijriDeddahIraqi poet and writer
1964 – Sam Cooke, American singer.
1968 – Arthur Sulzberger, American editor and journalist.
1977 – Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, founder of Hizb ut-Tahrir.
1978 – Vincent de Vigneault, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955.
1983 – Neil Ritchie, British soldier.
1988 – Muhammad Khalifa Al-Tunisi, Egyptian writer and translator.
2005 – Suleiman Owais, Jordanian journalist and poet.
2010 – Suhail Al-Sayyid Ahmed, Jordanian poet. 2011 – Ahmed Bahgat, Egyptian writer.
2016 – Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm, Syrian thinker and writer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Anniversary of the founding of UNICEF.
⏪ Republic Day in Burkina Faso.
⏪ Tango Day in Argentina.
