It happened on this day, January 18
Events:
1486 – King Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the Houses of Lancaster and York after the Wars of the Roses.
1778 – James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands and names them Sandwich Islands.
1788 – 736 British deportees from England arrive in Australia.
1863 – Ismail Pasha seizes power over Egypt after the death of his uncle, Governor Muhammad Saeed Pasha.
1896 – First demonstration of the X-ray machine.
1902 – The city of Riyadh falls to Abdul Aziz Al Saud.
1911 – First landing of an aircraft on an aircraft carrier, which opens the door wide to the construction of such ships.
1919 – The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
1943 – The Soviets announce the break of the siege of Leningrad by the Wehrmacht.
1948 – Imam Muhammad Mamoun Al-Shennawi takes over as Sheikh of Al-Azhar.
1949 – The Holy Jihad Army, founded by Abdul Qader al-Husseini to resist the establishment of Israel, is disbanded.
1952 – The Tunisian popular revolution against French occupation begins and French authorities arrest Habib Bourguiba.
1956 – The leader of the Iranian organization Fedayeen al-Islam, Mojtaba Nawab Safavi, is executed by firing squad for his opposition to the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi.
1976 – Lebanese Christian militias invade Karantina in Beirut, killing at least 1,000 people, in what is known as the Two Years' War.
1981 – The Islamic Summit Conference was held in the city of Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1982 – An earthquake in the Aegean Sea measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale was felt throughout Greece, Bulgaria, southeastern Italy, southeastern Yugoslavia and the western Turkey.
2002 – End of the civil war in Sierra Leone.
2003 – A firestorm in Canberra, Australia kills 4 and burns 491 homes.
2007 – A storm that hits the United Kingdom and Western Europe is considered the worst in twenty years, causing significant losses and leading to the closure of airports and ports, the sinking of some ships, the death of a fifty people and injured. hundreds.
2009 – Hamas and Palestinian factions announced that they accepted Israel's offer of a ceasefire and an end to the war on Gaza.
2011 – The Constitutional Democratic Rally in Tunisia expels deposed president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and six of his closest collaborators from its ranks, a few days after his overthrow. The interim President of the Republic, Fouad Mebaza, and Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi resign from the party. because of their efforts to separate state from party.
12015 – An Israeli airstrike on the Syrian Golan Heights resulted in the deaths of five Hezbollah members, including Jihad bin Imad Mughniyeh, field commander Muhammad Issa, as well as Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Ali Allahdadi.
2017 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant blows up the facade of the archaeological theater in the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria.
2018 – 52 people were killed and 5 others injured in a bus fire on the Samara road, Chimkent, Urgus district of Aktobe region of Kazakhstan.
2019 – More than 90 people were killed and dozens injured in an oil pipeline explosion in the town of Tlauelilpan in the Mexican state of Hidalgo.
2020 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom officially announces the removal of the title “Her Royal Highness” and associated privileges from the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan, following their decision to relinquish their duties royal.
2021 – Faustin Archange Touadera is re-elected President of the Central African Republic for a second term, after obtaining 53.92% of the votes.
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Births:
1540 – Catherine, Duchess of Braganza.
1689 – Charles Montesquieu, French thinker and creator of the theory of separation of powers.
1862 – Hussein Muhammad Hamada, a Lebanese Druze religious scholar.
1886 – Muhammad Lotfy Gomaa, Egyptian writer, thinker and political activist.
1892 – Oliver Hardy, American actor.
1893 – Ibrahim Al-Waez, Iraqi lawyer, jurist and politician.
1909 – Abdel Salam Haroun, Egyptian historian.
1926 – Salah Zulfiqar, Egyptian actor.
1937 – John Hume, Northern Irish politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.
1954 – Lotfi Bouchnak, Tunisian singer.
1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor.
1961 – Peter Beardsley, English footballer and manager.
1966 – Tariq Al-Ali, Kuwaiti actor.
1967 – Ivan Zamorano, Chilean footballer.
1970 – Abdel Moneim Amairi, Palestinian actor born in Syria.
1971 – Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and coach.
1977 – Mubarak Abdel Aziz, Kuwaiti footballer.
1978 – Bogdan Lupont, Romanian football goalkeeper.
1979 – Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer.
1980 – Robert Green, English footballer.
1981 – Olivier Rokos, Belgian tennis player.
1982 – Nawaf Al-Mansour, Kuwaiti footballer.
1985 – Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer.
1987 – Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer.
1988 – Abdullah Al-Shamali, Kuwaiti footballer.
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Death:
1213 – Tamar, Queen of Georgia.
1881 – Auguste Mariette Pasha, French Egyptologist founder of the Egyptian Museum.
1862 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States.
1863 – Muhammad Saeed Pasha, the fourth Egyptian ruler of the Alawite dynasty.
1936 Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
1956 – Mojtaba Nawab Safavi, Shiite cleric and leader of the Iranian organization Fedayeen al-Islam.
1974 – Hassan Al-Baroudi, Egyptian actor.
1985 – Mahmoud Muhammad Taha, Sudanese thinker and writer.
1995 – Adolf Butnant, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.
2008 – Ahmed Sanakra, soldier of the Palestinian Fatah movement.
2009 – Ali Sultan, Kuwaiti actor.
2015 – Abdel Karim Djead, Algerian journalist and novelist.
2018 – Alaa Al-Awadi, Iraqi media personality.
** Sabry Moussa, Egyptian novelist, journalist and screenwriter.
2021, – Dundar Ali Othman, the forty-fifth dean of the Othman family.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Feast of the Cross in Eastern Orthodoxy.
