It happened on this day, January 2
Events:
1492 – End of Islamic rule in Iberia with the fall of Granada and the surrender of its king, Abu Abdullah Muhammad XII.
1757 – The British capture the Indian city of Calcutta.
1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to recognize and agree to join the American Confederacy.
1793 – Prussia and Russia divide Poland.
1865 – Khedive Ismail creates the Egyptian national postal service.
1890 – The administration of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison appoints Alice Sanger as the first woman to join the White House staff.
1900 – John Hay announces an open door policy to encourage trade with China.
1929 – Canada and the United States agree to protect Niagara Falls.
1937 – England and Italy sign the “Mediterranean Agreement” and maintain independence from Spain.
1942 – Manila falls to Japanese forces during World War II.
1943 – German forces begin their withdrawal from the Caucasus after being encircled by snow during World War II.
1946 – King Zogo I of Albania abdicates the throne while retaining his rights and remains in Alexandria due to his inability to return to his communist-controlled country.
1947 – Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi begins a peace march in India after signs of civil war between Hindus and Muslims appeared in the Indian subcontinent in the run-up to independence from British occupation.
1905 – Signing of the Portsmouth Agreement between Japan and Russia to end the war between them, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
1964 – Lieutenant General Ayub Khan assumes the presidency of Pakistan.
1984 – General Muhammadu Buhari declares himself President of Nigeria.
1986 – Opening of the National Theater in Egypt after its renovation.
2006 – Members of the Temple Mount Trustees perform religious rituals calling for the demolition of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the non-division of Jerusalem. They attack a number of young Palestinians at the Hebron Gate and in the Old City Valley and attempt to storm it. Al-Aqsa Mosque.
2007 – Ban Ki-moon succeeds his predecessor Kofi Annan as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2009 – Sheikh Saud bin Rashid Al Mualla takes over as head of the Emirate of Umm Al Quwain, succeeding his father, Sheikh Rashid bin Ahmed Al Mualla.
2014 – Bangladesh Awami League wins general elections amid violence.
2016 – Burning of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, after Saudi authorities executed 47 terrorism defendants, including opposition religious scholar Nimr al-Nimr.
2022 – Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigns from his post.
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Births:
1642 – Sultan Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan.
1699 – Sultan Osman III, Ottoman sultan.
1817 – François Chabas, French Egyptologist.
1857 – Victor Uhlig, Austrian geologist and paleontologist.
1872 – Albert Combs Barnes, American chemist.
1895 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat.
1926 – Bandar bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince.
1926 – Abdul Wahed Al-Khunaizi, Saudi poet.
1931 – Franček Šavranek, Czechoslovak footballer.
1936 – Hamad Al-Muzaini, Saudi actor.
1938 Farouk El-Baz, American geologist of Egyptian origin.
** Mustafa Issa, Palestinian politician.
1940 – Saud Al-Faisal, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1941 – Abdel Wahab Doukkali, Moroccan singer and musician.
1960 – Naoki Urasawa, Japanese mangaka, illustrator and musician.
1968 – Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor.
1969 – Dominigos, Portuguese footballer and manager.
1972 – Ibtisam Abdullah, Bahraini actress.
1977 – Ahu Türkbeş, Turkish actress.
1981 – Maximiliano Rodriguez, Argentine footballer.
1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress.
1984 – Sultan Al-Tawqi, Omani footballer.
1987 – Abdullah Al-Tararwa, Kuwaiti actor.
1988 – Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer.
1991 – Davide Santon, Italian footballer.
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Death:
1919 – Prince Turki I bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, eldest son of King Abdulaziz.
1923 – Salman al-Mohseni, Arab-Iranian jurist and poet.
1962 – Fares Al-Khoury, Syrian politician and national thinker
1993 – Kamal Hussein, Egyptian actor.
1995 – Mohamed Siad Barre, president of Somalia.
** Manuel Rivera, Spanish painter.
2009 – Rashid bin Ahmed Al Mualla, ruler of the emirate of Umm Al Quwain.
2016 – Salem bin Ghubaisha, Arab traveler and explorer.
** Nimr al-Nimr, a Saudi cleric.
** Fares Al Shuwail, Al-Qaeda ideologue.
2020 – Najwa Qassem, Lebanese presenter.
2021 – Waheed Hamed, Egyptian writer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Saint Basil’s Day.
