It happened on this day, December 21
Events:
1522 Conquest of the island of Rhodes under the leadership of Suleiman the Magnificent and annexation to the Ottoman Empire.
1800 – The French reorganize the general office in Cairo and elect a special office.
1832 – Victory of the Egyptian army, led by Ibrahim Pasha, over the Ottoman army at the Battle of Konya.
1879 – Thomas Edison invents the electric light bulb.
⭐ The premiere of Henrik Ibsen's play “A Doll's House Nights” at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen.
1908 – Opening of the Egyptian National University, considered the first Arab university.
1914 – Germany launches the first air raid on Britain with a Zeppelin plane during World War I.
1919 – American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
1937 – Walt Disney produced the first animated feature film titled Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
1938 – The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, dissolves the Legislative Council six months after its formation and calls for the election of a new council on December 27.
1949 – Creation of the Federal Republic of Germany in West Germany.
1951 – Libya gains independence.
⭐ Creation of the Organization of American States.
1957 – Morocco's first university is inaugurated in the city of Rabat.
1958 – Charles de Gaulle is elected president of the French Republic, becoming the first president of the Fifth Republic.
1964 – The British House of Commons abolishes the death penalty.
1966 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 31 lands on the surface of the Moon and begins analyzing its components. 1968 – The United States launches the Apollo 8 rocket carrying 3 American astronauts into orbit around the Moon.
1969 – The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
1973 – The Geneva Conference was held under the auspices of the United Nations, the United States and the Soviet Union, and in the presence of Egypt, Jordan and Israel.
1979 – Signing of an agreement ending the 41-year rebellion of the colony of Rhodesia against the British Crown.
1986 – Opening of the Ma'rib Dam project by Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and United Arab Emirates President Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
1988 – A Pan Am World Airlines Boeing 747 explodes over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 269 people, in what would later be known as the Lockerbie Affair.
1991-11 Former Soviet republics sign an agreement in Kazakhstan declaring the end of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Group of Independent States.
1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli control to the Palestinians.
⭐ Two trains collided in Badrashin, Egypt, killing 75 people and injuring hundreds.
1999 – The Spanish Civil Guard stops a truck loaded with 950 kilograms of explosives prepared to be detonated by the separatist organization ETA.
2008 – The ruling military junta in Mauritania lifts the house arrest of deposed president Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallah.
2010 – The Iraqi Parliament gives confidence to the new government formed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, long after the elections were held.
2013 – The Sudanese army liberates 17 areas from rebel control.
⭐ Bayern Munich beat Raja Sports Club in the FIFA Club World Cup final by two goals to nil.
2015 – The ethics committee of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) sanctions Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, and Michel Platini, president of UEFA, with eight years of suspension.
2017 – The United Nations General Assembly approves by majority a draft resolution rejecting changing the legal status of Jerusalem after the United States recognized it as the capital of Israel.
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Births:
1401 – Masaccio, Italian painter.
1903 – Faraj Al-Omran, Saudi Muslim jurist, poet and writer.
1910 – Ali Ahmed Bakathir, Egyptian writer.
1914 – Abdul Karim Qasim, Iraqi Prime Minister.
1918 – Dr. Kurt Waldheim, ninth president of Austria and fourth secretary-general of the United Nations.
1933 – Ali Nayfeh, Jordanian scientist of Palestinian origin, professor of mechanical engineering.
1942 – Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China.
1949 – Thomas Sankara, fifth president of Burkina Faso.
1951 – Naglaa Fathi, Egyptian actress.
1952 – Hani Shaker, Egyptian singer and actor.
1967 – Mikheil Saakashvili, third president of Georgia.
1970 – Ahmed Bahja, Moroccan footballer.
1972 – Buthaina Rashwan, Egyptian actress.
1985 – Andrea Jeremiah, Indian actress.
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Death:
72 – Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Christ.
1375 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer.
1553 Sinan Pasha (commander of the Ottoman navy)
1920 – Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, Somali national leader.
1993 – Prince Saad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Chairman of the Saudi Royal Family Council.
2006 – Saparmurat Niyazov, first president of Turkmenistan.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Crossword Day, named after its first appearance in 1913 in the New York World.
