It happened on this day, June 22
events:
971 – Al-Azhar Mosque opened for prayer, which is the mosque that Jawhar al-Siqilli began building on April 4, 970.
1120 – Battle of Katinda, between the forces of Alfonso I, King of Aragon and the Almoravid army under the command of Ibrahim bin Yusuf bin Tashfin
1527 – Fathallah expels the Portuguese from the port of Sunda Kelapa (present-day Jakarta), now commemorated as the anniversary of the city's founding.
1941 – Start of the German attack on Moscow, with the participation of 4.5 million Axis soldiers.
1973 – Canada abolishes the death penalty.
1986 – Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scores a handball goal against England during the World Cup quarter-final in Mexico.
2002 – An earthquake hits western Iran, killing 261 people.
2004 – Bahrain arrested six people to prevent them from committing acts harming lives and property and because they were suspected of having links to Al-Qaeda.
✴️ The South Korean kidnapper was killed in Iraq after his captors' proposed deadline for the withdrawal of Korean forces from Iraq expired.
2009 – The President of the Autonomous Republic of Ingushetia within the Russian Federation, Yunusbek Yevkirov, survived an assassination attempt following a car bomb explosion in his convoy.
2018 – Opening of the 18th Mediterranean Games, organized by the Spanish city of Tarragona.
2019 – A failed coup attempt in Ethiopia took place in the northern state of Amhara, leading to the death of the Ethiopian chief of staff, and the government regained control of the situation .
2020 – The number of confirmed Corona pandemic infections exceeds nine million people worldwide, including more than 469 thousand deaths and approximately four million 466 thousand recovered cases.
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Births:
916 – Sayf al-Dawla al-Hamdani, the most prominent prince of the Hamdanid state.
1179 – Ibn Batish, Iraqi Muslim scholar, jurist, writer and teacher.
1757 – George Vancouver, English explorer.
1767 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and politician.
1802 – Mirza Kazem Bey, Iranian-Russian orientalist and historian of Azerbaijani origin.
1805 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician.
1856 – Henry Rider Haggard, English writer.
1864 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician.
1897 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist.
1908 – Majd al-Din al-Najafi al-Isfahani, Iranian Muslim scholar, professor of religion and poet.
1919 – Raqia Ibrahim, Egyptian Jewish actress.
1932 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor.
1940 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director.
1942 – Ashraf Abdel Ghafour, Egyptian actor.
1946 – Faihan Al-Arbeed, Kuwaiti actor.
1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress. Mohsen Saleh, football player and coach with Egyptian feet.
1952 – Graham Greene, Canadian actor.
1953 – Cyndi Lauper, American singer.
1954 – Nabila Karam, Lebanese actress.
1960 – Samira Sedqy, Egyptian actress.
1964 – Dan Brown, American writer.
1970 – Michel Eleftheriades, Lebanese musician and politician.
1971: Khodadad Azizi, Iranian footballer. Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress.
1974 – Donald Faison, American actor.
** Iman Al-Gosaibi, Saudi actress.
1978 – Eşe Varler, Turkish actress.
** Nadine Tahseen Bey, Syrian actress.
1980 – Carlos Díaz, Brazilian footballer.
1981 – Ahmed Flux, Egyptian actor.
1982 – Hamad Al-Montashari, Saudi footballer.
** Andoni Iraola, Spanish footballer.
** Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model.
1983 – Issa Al-Muhayani, Saudi footballer.
1984 – Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player.
1987 – Lee Min Ho, Korean actor and singer.
1988 – Kieran Lee, English footballer.
1990 – Sebastian Jung, German footballer.
1992 – Ghazlan, Kuwaiti actress.
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Death:
1429 – Ghiyath al-Din al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician.
1691 – Suleiman II, Ottoman sultan.
1969 – Judy Garland, American actress.
1976 – Saleh Jawdat, Egyptian poet.
1987 – Taqi al-Din al-Hilali, Moroccan religious scholar.
** Fred Astaire, American actor.
1990 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958.
1993 – Al-Mukhtar Ben Hamedun, Mauritanian historian and poet.
1996 – Salah Abu Seif, Egyptian director.
2000 – Rushdi Al Mahdi, Egyptian actor.
2008 – Albert Kassiri, Egyptian writer who writes in French.
** Abdul Rahman Al-Mulq, Saudi poet.
2012 – Othman Al-Shamayleh, Jordanian actor.
2015 – James Horner is an American composer specializing in film music.
2016 – Amjad Sabri, Pakistani Sufi singer and singer.
2020 – Joel Schumacher, American director.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Teachers’ Day in El Salvador.
