It happened on this day, July 13th.
events:
1837 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into Buckingham Palace, becoming the first queen to live at the palace, which is still the official residence of the royal family.
1854 – Egyptian governor Abbas Hilmi I is assassinated in his palace in Banha.
1930 – The first FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay.
1979 Palestinian activists occupy the Egyptian embassy in Turkey to protest the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.
1989 Iranian intelligence assassinates Kurdistan Democratic Party Secretary Abdul Rahman Qasimlou in Vienna.
1992 – Yitzhak Rabin becomes Prime Minister of Israel for the second time.
2003 – Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah issues an Emirati decree appointing Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as Prime Minister and tasking him with appointing cabinet members. This is the first time in Kuwaiti history that the positions of Crown Prince and Prime Minister have been separated.
2006 – The Israeli military bombing of Beirut's Rafik Hariri Airport, destroying runways and preventing flights in Lebanese airspace in a land, sea and air siege of Lebanon during its war against it.
2008 – The Union for the Mediterranean is launched in Paris and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak assume its presidency.
2011 – Three bomb blasts took place in Mumbai, killing 21 people and injuring 143.
2014 – The German national team wins the FIFA World Cup for the fourth time in its history after beating the Argentinian national team 1-0 in the final match held at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2015 – After a nine-and-a-half-year journey since its launch on January 19, 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft successfully flew past the planet Pluto for the first time and took the closest color image of the planet.
2016 – The Islamic State's Amaq agency announces the assassination of the organization's second-in-command and commander of its armed forces, Abu Omar al-Shishani.
⭐ Theresa May takes over as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding David Cameron who resigned.
2018 – Two major bombings took place in the cities of Banu and Mastung in Pakistan, considered one of the most violent terrorist attacks in the country. They killed 154 people and injured 223 others.
2019 – Launch of the Russian-German high-energy astrophysics observatory SPECTRE RG from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Births:
100 BC – Emperor Julius Caesar, first Roman Emperor
1527 – John Dee, an English scholar of astronomy, mathematics, geography, and astrology.
1608 – Emperor Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor.
1887 – Ali Al-Kassar, Egyptian actor
1906 – Firdaus Muhammad, Egyptian actress.
1921 – Ernest Gould, Austrian-born American musician.
1922 – Anker Jørgensen, Prime Minister of Denmark.
1934 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
1941 – Ahmed Khalil, Egyptian actor.
** Robert Forrester, American actor.
1942 – Harrison Ford, American actor.
1944 – Erno Rubik, Hungarian architect.
1950 – Ma Ying-jeou, President of Taiwan.
1954 – Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer and actress.
1979 – Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer.
1985 – Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican soccer goalkeeper.
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Death:
678 AD – Mrs. Aisha bint Abi Bakr, wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
1854 – Abbas Hilmi I, governor of Egypt.
1995 – Ali Al-Wardi, Iraqi sociologist and historian.
1921- Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908.
1974 – Patrick Blackett, English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948.
1977 – Kamal Refaat, Egyptian politician and military man.
1989 – Abdul Rahman Qasimlou, Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
2003 – Sheikh Ahmed Al-Waeli, Iraqi preacher and cleric.
2008 – Abdul Amir Al-Ward, Iraqi poet, linguist and theater actor.
2009 – Amin Al-Hafez, Prime Minister of Lebanon.
** Abdullah bin Jibreen, a Saudi religious scholar.
2011 – Hassan Dakak, Syrian actor.
2016 – Abu Omar Al-Shishani, a leader of the Islamic State.
2017 – Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Saudi prince.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⏪ Happy Festival in Japan.
