It happened on this day, June 17
events:
656 AD – Caliph Uthman bin Affan, the third rightly guided caliph, was assassinated at his home.
1579 – British sailor Francis Drake docks in a port north of San Francisco, California, while in Earth orbit, and announces the annexation of California to the territory of Queen Elizabeth I.
1795 – The French consul in Cairo proposes to his country to militarily occupy Egypt to preserve French interests.
1800 – The French execute Suleiman Al-Halabi for the assassination of their leader, General Kléber.
1930 – Authorities of the British Mandate for Palestine carry out the death sentence in the city prison of Acre, known as (the Citadel), against three revolutionaries of the Buraq revolution: Fuad Hassan Hijazi, Muhammad Khalil Jamjoum and Atta Ahmed. Al-Zeer.
1940 – Britain and Allied forces are forced to withdraw from France after Nazi German forces seize two-thirds of it and form a government loyal to them in the town of Vichy, led by Marshal Philippe Pétain .
✴️ The three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, fall under Soviet occupation.
1944 – Iceland's independence from Denmark.
1953 – A workers' revolution breaks out in East Germany.
1967 – China conducts its first nuclear test and detonates a hydrogen bomb.
1972 – Five White House employees are arrested for their involvement in the Watergate scandal.
1985 – The American Discovery Channel begins broadcasting.
1986 – Four explosions occur in Kuwait at several oil installations in the Al-Ahmadi region, causing major fires in the Al-Ahmadi port and in the Al-Maqwa fields, without causing any casualties. The “Organization of Arab Revolutionaries” claims responsibility for these explosions.
1994 – Start of the FIFA World Cup, hosted in the United States.
✴️ American football player and actor OJ Simpson has been arrested for his involvement in the murder of his wife and her boyfriend.
2015 – 9 people were killed, including state Rep. Clementine Pinckney, in a shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.
✴️ Wikipedia wins the Princess of Asturias Prize in the International Cooperation category.
✴️ Suicide attacks targeting Houthi centers and mosques in Sanaa.
2019 – Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi lost consciousness at the end of his trial and his death was announced the same day.
2020 – A French court sentences Rifaat al-Assad to 4 years in prison (suspended) and confiscates his property in France and one of his real estate properties in London, for money laundering.
2021 – The Shenzhou 12 space mission is launched to China's large modular space station. This is the seventh Chinese manned flight.
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Births:
1239 – King Edward I, king of England.
1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian musician.
1888 – Heinz Guderian, German soldier.
1898 – Escher, Dutch painter.
1917 – Youssef Al-Sibai, Egyptian writer and minister.
1920 – François Jacob, French doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1965.
1930 – Aisha bint Mohammed V, Alawite princess of the royal family of Morocco.
1931 – Kawthar Ramzy, Egyptian actress.
1940 – George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001.
1942 – Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian diplomat and politician and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
1943 – Barry Manilow, American singer.
1953 – Fouad Bakhsh, Saudi actor.
1959 – Kazeki Yao, Japanese voice actor.
1960 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor.
1961 – Koichi Yamadra, Japanese voice actor.
1963 – Greg Kinnear, American actor.
1969 – Ilya Tsymbalar, Russian footballer and coach.
1971 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer.
1973 – Louis Leterrier, French director.
1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player.
1981 – Amrita Rao, Indian actress.
1980 – Sela, Turkish singer and songwriter.
1985 – Marcos Bagdatis, Cypriot tennis player.
1985 – Mahlaqa Jaberi, Iranian-American model.
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Death:
656 – Caliph Uthman bin Affan, the third rightly guided caliph.
1631 – Mumtaz Mahal, owner of the famous Taj Mahal shrine.
1696 – John III Sobieski, king of Poland.
1800 – Suleiman Al-Halabi, Syrian mujahid who assassinates General Kleber.
1915 – Abolqasim Ordabadi, Jafari jurist and Iranian-Azerbaijani poet.
1940 – Arthur Harden, British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929.
1968 – José Nassazi, Uruguayan footballer.
1971 – Published Sevak, Armenian poet, translator and literary critic.
1981 – Richard O'Connor, British soldier.
1989 – Mohsen bin Sultan Al-Fadhli, Jaafari jurist and Saudi writer.
1990 – Ahmed Al-Adwani, Kuwaiti poet. Esther Clark Wright, Canadian historian.
1998 – Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawy, Egyptian cleric.
2001 – Donald Cram, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987.
2002 – Fritz Walter, German footballer.
2006 – Ali Al-Sumairi, Kuwaiti actor.
2010 – Abdulaziz Al-Hammad, Saudi actor and visual artist.
2012 – Rodney King, American citizen victim of brutality by the Los Angeles police.
2015 – Suleyman Demirel, former Turkish president.
2017 – Jacques Sabry Shammas, Syrian poet.
2019 – Mohamed Morsi, fifth president of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
2021 – Kenneth Kaunda, first president of Zambia. Lamia Abbas Amara, Iraqi poet.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
⬅️ National holiday in Iceland.
