It happened on this day, January 17
Events:
1773 – James Cook crosses the Antarctic Circle and becomes the first man to cross it.
1819 – Simón Bolívar proclaims the creation of the Republic of Colombia.
1852 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies in Transvaal, South Africa.
1885 – British forces defeat the Dervishes al-Mahdi at the Battle of Abu Talih after heavy losses prevent them from achieving their main objective, which was to rescue General Charles George Gordon in Khartoum.
1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million in exchange for the transfer of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea.
1941 – Kuomintang forces open fire on Communist forces on the orders of Chiang Kai-shek, resuming the Chinese civil war.
1946 – The first session of the UN Security Council takes place.
1947 – Serbs join the Republic of Yugoslavia.
1962 – The first government is formed in Kuwait after elections to the Constituent Assembly. The government is headed by the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah.
💥 The first Arab summit conference was held in Cairo.
1986 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi orders an end to media attacks on Egypt.
1991 – Operation Desert Storm begins during the Second Gulf War to liberate Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion.
1996 – The Czech Republic is accepted as a member of the European Union.
2009 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announces a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, ending the Israeli attack on the strip. Following this announcement, Hamas announced that it would continue fighting as long as Israeli soldiers remained in the strip.
💥 The Oman national team wins the nineteenth Gulf Football Championship Cup, which is being held for the first time in its history in the Sultanate of Oman, after beating the Saudi national team on penalties.
2011 – Announcement of the formation of the new Tunisian government, led by Mohamed Ghannouchi and with the participation of opposition leaders, a few days after the overthrow of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
💥 The prosecutor of the International Tribunal for Lebanon, Daniel Bellemare, submits to the pre-trial judge of the Tribunal the indictment concerning the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
2018 – The shooting of Saudi preacher Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al-Tuwaijri by unknown gunmen in Guinea.
💥 The Egyptian military court sentences preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi to life in prison for inciting violence in the case of the assassination of an Egyptian officer in 2015.
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Births:
1342 – Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
1405 – Skanderbeg, Albanian nobleman and military leader.
1463 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.
1504 – Pius V, Pope Vatican.
1560 – Gaspard Bohen, Swiss botanist.
1600 – Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish soldier, playwright and poet.
1666 – Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist.
1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American writer, inventor and ambassador.
1732 – Stanisław August Poniatowski, king of Poland.
1820 – Anne Brontë, British novelist and poet.
1826 – Adelaide Ehrenroth, Finnish journalist and writer.
1834 – August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist.
1860 – Douglas Hyde, President of the Republic of Ireland.
1863 – David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
** Konstantin Stanislavsky, Russian director and actor.
1880 – Mack Sennett, American film producer.
1899 – Al Capone, American gangster.
1905 – Yahya Haqqi, Egyptian novelist.
**Guillermo Stabile, Argentinian footballer and coach.
1910 – Muhammad bin Al-Hassan Al-Wazzani, Moroccan politician and journalist.
1911 – George Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1982.
** Gavril Kachalin, Russian footballer and coach.
1918 – Noman Ashour, Egyptian playwright and writer.
1920 – Amira Amir, Egyptian actress.
1928 – Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser.
1931 – James Earl Jones, American actor.
1933 – Dalida, Italian-Egyptian-French singer.
1935 – Ruth Ann Miner, American politician.
1937 – Nabil Badr, Egyptian actor.
1940 – Tabare Vázquez, president of Uruguay.
1942 – Muhammad Ali Clay, American boxer.
1943 – René Préval, Haitian politician.
1950 – Jan Zvihlec, Czechoslovak footballer.
1962 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor.
** Sebastian Juncker, American writer and journalist.
1964 – Michelle Obama, American lawyer, wife of US President Barack Obama and former First Lady.
1965 – Dr. C. Caruso, American director and producer.
1969 – Naveen Andrews, English actor. 1970 – Private Tartakovsky, Russian-American animator.
1971 – Richard Burns, English rally driver.
1973 – Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer.
1974 – Yang Chen, Chinese footballer.
**Laleh and Laden Bijani, Siamese twin sisters from Iran.
1975 – Jihan Rateb, Egyptian actress and singer.
** Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican actor.
1980 – Zooey Descanel, American actress and singer.
1981 – Muhammad Fahad, Kuwaiti footballer.
**Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer.
** Firas Al-Sayed, a Syrian bodybuilder.
1982 – Dwyane Wade, American basketball player.
1983 – Alvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer. 1984 – Sulaf Jalil, Iraqi actress.
**Calvin Harris, Scottish singer and songwriter.
1985 – Pablo Barrientos, Argentine footballer.
1988 – Hector Moreno, Mexican footballer.
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Death:
1040 – Masoud bin Mahmoud Al-Ghaznawi, Sultan of the Ghaznavid State.
1168 – Thierry, Count of Flanders.
1893 – Rutherford Hayes, nineteenth president of the United States.
1932 – Ali Al-Khoei, Iranian Muslim jurist, poet and writer.
1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese revolutionary leader.
1981 – Abdullah Al-Nouri, Kuwaiti Sunni religious scholar.
1996 – Mustafa Sayed Ahmed, Sudanese singer.
2002 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989.
2004 – Walter Offenberg, American paleontologist.
2006 – Abu Al-Baraa Ahmed, Sharia judge within the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat in Algeria.
2010 – Daisuke Guri, Japanese voice actor.
** Eric Segal, American novelist.
** Jyoti Basu, Indian politician.
2012 – Mohamed Rouicha, Moroccan musician.
** Ahmed Hamida, Egyptian writer.
2013 – Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sudanese singer.
2014 – Hiro Onoda, a Japanese soldier during World War II.
2015 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress.
2018 – Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al-Tuwaijri, a Saudi preacher.
2019 – Hamad Nasser, Kuwaiti actor.
** Babakir Awadallah, Sudanese politician and the country's sixth Prime Minister.
2020 – Nadia Rafiq, Egyptian actress.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Feast of Saint Anthony the Great.
