It happened on this day, January 16
Events:
929 – Abd al-Rahman al-Nasir declares himself in Córdoba, caliph of the Muslims, establishing the Caliphate of Córdoba.
1761 – Britain seizes the Indian region of Pondicherry from France.
1777 – Vermont gains independence from New York.
1835 – The Emirate of Dubai is established after 15 years of association with British protection.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic south pole.
1920 – The first meeting of the League of Nations takes place.
1938 – Opening of the Egyptian Agricultural Museum in the “Palace of Princess Fatima Ismail”, which she had donated in 1908 to the Egyptian University.
1943 – The Iraqi government declares war on the Axis powers and sides with the Allied forces in the context of World War II.
1948 – Zionist gangs commit a massacre at the Semiramis Hotel on Salah al-Din Street in Haifa, detonating a bomb, killing 31 Arab men, women and children and injuring 31 others.
1953 – Dissolution of political parties in Egypt.
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson authorizes the United States to help South Vietnamese forces destabilize the regime in North Vietnam.
1972 – Mallari incident in Indonesia.
1979 – The Shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, arrives with his family in Egypt after leaving Iran.
💥 An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale in Iran kills at least 200 people.
1989 – Establishment of political relations between Spain and Israel.
1991 – The expiration of the deadline given by the UN Security Council for Iraq to withdraw its forces from Kuwait, in accordance with Resolution 678.
1992 – Mohamed Boudiaf assumes the presidency of Algeria.
1994 – An earthquake in Pennsylvania measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale.
1995 – An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale in Kobe, Japan, kills 5,502 people and injures 3,689.
2001 – Assassination of the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Kabila.
2006 – Political activist Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is named president of Liberia, becoming the first woman to serve as president of an African country.
2010 – The Muslim Brotherhood chooses a member of its Guidance Bureau, Dr. Muhammad Badie, as its general guide, succeeding Muhammad Mahdi Akef, to be the group's eighth general guide.
2014 – Start of work of the Special International Tribunal for Lebanon, charged with examining the case of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
2016 – Tsai Ing-wen was elected president of Taiwan, making her the first woman to hold the position, with her Democratic Progressive Party winning a majority of seats in the Legislative Council.
2017 – A Turkish Airlines international cargo plane crashed near Bishkek's Minas International Airport, killing 4 crew members and 33 others.
2020 – Mikhail Mishustin is appointed Prime Minister of the Russian government, succeeding Dmitry Medvedev, who resigned in order to amend the Russian Constitution.
💥 The death of Egyptian actress Magda at the age of 89.
2021 – Yoweri Museveni is re-elected president of Uganda for a sixth presidential term, after announcing he obtained 58.6% of the vote.
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Births:
1409 – Renato I, king of the Kingdom of Naples.
1836 – Francesco II, king of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1926 – Abraham Serfati, Moroccan politician.
1934 – Karima Mokhtar, Egyptian actress.
1949 – Caroline Munro, English actress.
1952 – Ahmed Fouad II, nominally king of Egypt after the July 23 Revolution and only son of King Farouk.
1956 – Saad Eddine Othmani, Moroccan politician, doctor, researcher and jurist.
1958 – Dalal Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actress.
1965 – Dina Abdullah, Egyptian actress.
1972 – Salah Haisso, Moroccan runner.
1974 – Matthias Jönsson, Swedish footballer. 1975 – Ayga Bingol, Turkish actress.
1979 – Aaliyah, American singer.
1980 – Amira Muhammad Ali, German politician of Egyptian origin Seydou Keita, Malian footballer.
** Yasmine Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actress.
1981 – Bobby Zamora, English footballer.
1982 – Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer.
1983 – Emanuel Bogatetz, Austrian footballer.
1984 – Pierre Bouya, Cameroonian footballer
** Stefan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer.
1988 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer.
1996 – Jennie, South Korean singer.
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Death
774 – Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i, Muslim religious scholar and imam of Beirut and the rest of the Levant.
1935 – Mother Parker, American outlaw.
1944 – Habibullah bin Qarin, Iraqi-Saudi Jaafari jurist.
1954 – Ali Mahdi Shams al-Din, Jaafari jurist, judge and Lebanese poet.
1959 – Muhammad Hamid al-Faqi, founder of the Ansar al-Sunnah Muhammadiyah association.
1986 – Ibrahim Hamouda, Egyptian actor and singer.
2001 – Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2017 – Mumtaz Al-Bahra, Syrian visual artist and designer.
2020 – Magda, Egyptian actress.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ National Religious Freedom Day in the United States.
⏪ Alcohol-free day in the United States.
⏪ Teachers' Day in Thailand.
