It happened on this day, July 22nd.
events:
1598 – William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice is entered into the Royal Register by order of Queen Elizabeth I.
1896 – The first issue of the “Al-Sham Journal” is published in Damascus. The newspaper continues to appear until 1908, when it ceases publication.
1906 – Coronation of Haakon VII as King of Norway.
1913 – Creation of FIDIC (International Federation of Consulting Engineers)
1921 – The Rif Republic in Morocco defeats Spanish soldiers at the Battle of Anwal.
1933 – American pilot Willie Post lands in New York after completing a seven-day round-the-world flight in a unit.
1944 – Independence of Poland and declaration of the Republic.
1946 – The Irgun bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people and wounding 46 others.
1952 – A new government is formed in Egypt, led by Ahmed Naguib Al-Hilali, and it continues its work for only a few hours due to the July 23 Revolution that night.
1987 – Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali is shot in the face in London.
1990 – The Iraqi National Council recommends that Saddam Hussein remain president of Iraq for life.
✴️ Israel lays the foundation stone for the construction of the first settlement in southern Lebanon.
2003 – Battle for Uday and Qusay's hideout in Mosul between 200 American soldiers and Uday, Qusay and Mustafa, sons of former President Saddam Hussein.
2006 – Opening of the Emirates Stadium, the current home of Arsenal Football Club.
2015 – The University of Birmingham announces the discovery of a Quranic manuscript dating from the time of the Prophet, after being mistakenly combined with another manuscript for years.
2020 – The number of confirmed cases of the Corona pandemic exceeds 15 million people worldwide, including more than 617,000 deaths and approximately eight and a half million recovered cases.
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Births:
1478 – King Philip I, King of the Kingdom of Castile.
1510 – Alessandro de Medici, ruler of Florence.
1849 – Emma Lazarus, American poet.
1887 – Gustav Herz, German experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925.
1888 – Selman Waxman, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1952.
1925 – Aida Hilal, Lebanese/Egyptian actress.
1939 – Nabil Al-Mashini, Jordanian actor.
** Warda, Algerian singer.
1946 – Danny Glover, American actor.
** Happy Mathieu, French singer.
** Johnson Toribiong, President of Palau.
1949 – Hayatem, Egyptian actress and belly dancer.
1953 – René van der Yken, Belgian footballer.
1955 – Willem Dafoe, American actor.
1962 – Saeed Salem, Emirati actor.
1963 – Emilio Butragueño, Spanish footballer.
1964 – John Leguizamo, Colombian actor.
1965 – Shawn Michaels, American wrestler.
1977 – Gustavo Neri, Brazilian footballer.
1978 – Dennis Romidal, Danish footballer.
1980 – Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer.
** Kate Ryan, Belgian singer.
1984 – Stuart Downing, English footballer.
1992 – Selena Gomez, American singer and actress.
1998 – Madison Pettis, American actress.
2013 – George, Prince of Cambridge, third in line to the British throne.
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Death:
1908 – William Randall Cramer, British politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1903.
1936 – Ahmed Izza Al-Azami, Iraqi writer, journalist and historian.
1979 – Sandor Kosic, Hungarian footballer.
2003 – Uday Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician.
** Qusay Saddam Hussein, Iraqi military and politician.
** Mustafa Qusay Saddam Hussein.
2008 – Fawaz bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Emir of the Mecca Al-Mukarramah region.
2018 – Fatima Abdel Mahmoud, Sudanese politician and the first woman to establish a political party in Sudan.
**Hadija Mehmedovic, Bosnian human rights activist and founder of the Mothers of Srebrenica association.
2019 – Sabreen Burshid, Bahraini actress.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Issue day i.
⬅️ National Tree Planting Day in the Central African Republic.
