It happened on this day, July 8th.
events:
951 – Foundation of the modern city of Paris, which has remained the capital of the French state ever since.
1497 – Vasco da Gama leaves with four ships from the port of Lisbon, heading for India.
1709 – The “Battle of Poltava” takes place, in which Russian Tsar Peter the Great defeats Swedish King Charles XII, ending Sweden's role as a regional power in Europe.
1760 – The “Battle of Restigouche” took place between the United Kingdom and France as part of the Seven Years' War that took place in the area of the course of the “Restigouche River” between the forces of the two countries. and ended with the defeat of France, which led to the fall of all French colonies located north of the American continent to the British.
1889 – The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
1892 – A fire destroys the city of St. John's in Newfoundland, Canada.
1937 – The “Saadabad Agreement” is concluded between Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan against the Kurdish movement.
1940 – The Norwegian government moves to London after Oslo falls to the Germans after 62 days of fighting during World War II.
1949 – The founder of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, Antoun Saadeh, is executed.
1966 – A military coup in the Kingdom of Burundi against King Mwambutsa IV and his son, Prince Ndizi V, ascends to the throne.
1972 – Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani is assassinated by Mossad when his car is blown up in the Hazmieh neighborhood near Beirut.
1982 – The “Dujail events” took place in Iraq in response to the attempted assassination of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. 140 people died and the incident was called a massacre.
✴️ Officially recognize the legitimacy of the “Senegalese Trotskyist Party” in Senegal, which has a communist ideology.
1986 – Former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim assumes the presidency of Austria.
1989 – Carlos Menem assumes the presidency of Argentina.
1990 – The German national football team wins its third World Cup title in its history after beating the Argentinian national team 1-0 at the fourteenth edition of the World Cup held in Italy.
1997 – NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
1999 – Alan Lee Davis is executed by electric chair. This is the last time an execution by electric chair is carried out in the state of Florida.
2003 – Israeli authorities decide to allow Jews and foreign tourists to enter the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
2009 – The 35th G8 Summit was held in L'Aquila, Italy.
2010 – Iveta Radikova becomes Prime Minister of Slovakia.
2013 – Fifty-one people were killed and hundreds injured outside the Republican Guard Club in Cairo following shootings at protesters supporting President Mohamed Morsi in what became known as the Republican Guard Incidents.
2014 – Hadi Al-Bahra is elected as the new president of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces.
✴️ The Houthis took control of the northern Yemeni city of Amran after storming the headquarters of the 310th Armored Brigade during the Battle of Amran.
✴️ Miroslav Klose becomes the player to score the most goals in FIFA World Cup history in a semi-final match in which many records were set.
2015 – Russia vetoes a Security Council resolution declaring the Srebrenica massacre a genocide.
2016 – Attack on the Sabaa al-Dujail shrine in northern Baghdad, south of Saladin Governorate, killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 70 others.
✴️ Election of Ibrahim Ghali as Secretary General of the Polisario Front and President of the Sahrawi Arab Republic, succeeding Mohamed Abdel Aziz.
✴️ 5 American police officers were killed by snipers in Dallas.
2018 – A train derailment in Çorlu, Turkey, kills 24 people and injures more than 120 others.
✴️ The joint declaration of the Ethiopian-Eritrean summit ends the Eritrean-Ethiopian border conflict, restores diplomatic relations between the two countries and opens their common borders.
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Births:
1593 – Artemisa Gentileschi, Italian painter.
1621 – Jean de La Fontaine, French writer.
1760 – Christian Cramb, French mathematician.
1839 – John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist.
1939 – Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi Shia religious authority and founder of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
1857 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist.
1885 – Ernst Bloch, German Marxist philosopher.
1895 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958.
1943 – Alia Al-Gabbas, Egyptian actress.
1951 – Anjelica Huston, American actress.
1952 – Ahmed Nazif, Egyptian Prime Minister.
1953 – Amal Abbas, Iraqi actress living in Kuwait.
1958 – Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician.
** Kevin Bacon, American actor.
** Ibrahim Al-Waez, Iraqi lawyer, jurist and politician.
1968 – Billy Crudup, American actor.
1976 – Arwa, Yemeni singer.
** Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer.
1977 – Milo Ventimiglia, American actor.
1979 – Anas Al-Daghim, Syrian poet.
1980 – Saud Kariri, Saudi footballer.
** Robbie Keane, Irish footballer.
1981 – Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player.
1982 – Sophia Bush, American actress.
1983 – Musaed Nada, Kuwaiti footballer.
1985 – Samer Ismail, Syrian actor.
1988 – Mickey Roque, Spanish footballer.
1998 – Jaden Smith, American actor
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Death:
1538 – Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer and traveler.
1695 – Christian Huygens, Dutch physicist.
1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet.
1937 – Musa Abu Khamsin, Jaafari jurist and Saudi judge.
1949 – Antoun Saadeh, Lebanese politician.
1962 – Abdul Karim Al-Jazairi, Iraqi Muslim jurist and poet.
1972 – Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian writer.
1979 – Shinichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
** Robert Woodward, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965.
1982 – Ahmad al-Najafi al-Zanjani, Iranian-Iraqi Shiite jurist and calligrapher.
1992 – Atef Bseiso, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1994 – Kim Il Sung, President of North Korea.
2003 – Laleh and Laden Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins after an operation to separate them at the head failed.
2012 – Muhammad bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Emir of the Al-Bahah region.
** Ernest Borgnine, American actor.
2013 – Hassan Abdel Salam, Egyptian theater director.
2014 – Hamid Al-Qushaybi, Yemeni military commander.
2021 – Abdel Hamid Abu Al-Naim, Moroccan Muslim preacher.
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