It happened on this day, May 13
events:
1110 – Crusader forces occupy the city of Beirut, which they call “Gutierrez”. They wreaked havoc there and committed horrible massacres, because its population was a mixture of Muslims and Christians. Beirut was besieged for 11 weeks until it fell to its defenders. desperate, despite the fact that its inhabitants obtained safety from King Baldwin in exchange for opening his walls to his forces, but he broke his promise and his soldiers began to kill the inhabitants until the streets are filled with blood.
1397 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu builds Kinkaku-ji Temple.
1703 – Russians occupy the mouth of the Neva and lay the foundations of the city of Saint Petersburg.
1805 – Omar Makram leads a popular revolution against the tyranny of the Ottoman governor, Khurshid Pasha. This revolution succeeded in removing him from power and choosing Muhammad Ali Pasha as governor of Egypt.
1809 – The French, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, capture the Austrian capital, Vienna.
1888 – Brazil bans slavery and the slave trade.
1943 – The commander-in-chief of French forces in Africa, General Giraud, issues an order to remove from office the Tunisian bey Mohamed Al-Moncef, accused of collaboration with the Germans against the Allies during the World War. II.
1948 – Martial law is declared in Egypt due to the Palestine War.
1958 – The French army launches a rebellion movement in Algeria against the central power of Paris with the support of the colonialists who form a public security committee which demands the complete integration of Algeria and France. The rebellion movement only ended after Charles de. Gaulle came to power on June 1, 1958, the fall of the Fourth Republic and the establishment of the Fifth Republic.
1965 – Gamal Abdel Nasser breaks diplomatic relations with West Germany because it establishes diplomatic relations with Israel.
2004 – Sonia Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India after the Indian National Congress Party, which she led, wins the elections. However, she withdrew from this position on May 18 due to protests following her candidacy. that she is of Italian origin.
2008 – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a decree appointing Arkady Dvorkovich as assistant to the Russian president and representative of the Russian president to the G8.
2011 – US President Barack Obama announces the resignation of Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell and names his deputy, David Hale, as his temporary successor.
2014 – An explosion at a coal mine in Türkiye kills more than 200 workers.
2015 – Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is overthrown by the army while visiting Tanzania, but the coup fails on May 15.
✴️ At least 45 people were killed in an armed attack on a bus in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city.
✴️ Opening of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival in France.
2016 – Mustafa Badr al-Din, a prominent Lebanese Hezbollah leader, was killed near Damascus International Airport.
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Births:
677 – Muhammad bin Ali Al-Baqir, the fifth imam according to the Shiites, one of the infallible people and the People of the House according to the Shiite belief.
1160 – Ibn al-Atheer al-Jazari, one of the leading Muslim historians.
1730 – Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1840 – Alphonse Daudet, French writer.
1857 – Ronald Ross, English doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902.
1882 – Georges Braque, French painter.
1928 – Samiha Tawfiq, Egyptian actress. Enrique Bolaños, president of Nicaragua.
1938 – Giuliano Amato, Italian Prime Minister.
1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor.
1940 – Bruce Chatwin, English novelist.
1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer.
1951 – Wajanat Al-Rahbini, Saudi actress.
1952 – Nizar Abu Hajar, Syrian actor.
1956 – Kirk Thornton, American voice actor. ** Bernd Forster, German footballer.
1957 – Alan Ball, American actor.
1958 – Abdullah Al-Sadhan, Saudi actor.
1964 – Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder. ** Steven Colbert, American actor and director.
1966 – Ali Al-Sumairi, Kuwaiti actor.
1969 – Issam Karika, Egyptian singer.
1970 – Khalaf Hamoud Al-Khutimi, Kuwaiti poet.
1976 – Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer.
1977 – Samantha Morton, English actress.
1979 – Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland and son of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
1981 – Musaed Abdullah, Kuwaiti footballer.
1983 – Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer.
1984 – Ahmed Ajab, Kuwaiti footballer.
1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor.
1987 – Hunter Parrish, American actor.
2000 – Omar Abu Laila, Palestinian guerrilla.
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Death:
1573 – Takeda Shin-gun, Japanese soldier.
1801 – Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Fayrouz, Muslim scholar and Hanbali Ahsa'i jurist.
1826 – Christian Cramb, French mathematician.
1878 – Joseph Henry, American physicist.
1930 – Fritjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.
1938 – Charles-Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1920.
1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor.
1987 – Fagé Al-Faqih, Lebanese journalist, university professor and politician.
1999 – Abdul Aziz bin Baz, Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2002 – Valery Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and coach.
2008 – Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, fourteenth Emir of the State of Kuwait.
2014 – Malek Bendjelloul, Swedish director and screenwriter of Algerian origin, Oscar winner.
** Muhammad Baqir al-Musawi al-Shirazi, Iranian Shiite religious authority.
2016 – Mustafa Badr al-Din, leader of Lebanese Hezbollah.
2020 – Riyad Esmat, Syrian storyteller, author, critic and director.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️Feast of Lady Fatima.
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