It happened on this day, May 21
events:
905 – Ki no Tsurayuki and his team finish writing the Kouken Wakashu.
1291 – Muslims, led by Al-Ashraf Qalawun, recapture the city of Sidon from the Crusaders, completely eliminating the Crusader presence in the Levant after it had remained for around two hundred years.
1471 – King Henry VI of England is killed in prison.
1851 – Colombia abolishes slavery.
1864 – Tsarist Russia announces the end of the Russo-Circassian War, forcing more than 2 million Circassians to leave their homeland.
1871 – The French government invades the Paris Commune and fights its inhabitants, killing around 20,000 of them in one bloody week.
1879 – Two Chilean destroyers blockade the Chilean port of Iquique and engage two Peruvian destroyers during the Pacific War (1879-1884).
1881 – Founding of the American Red Cross.
1904 – Foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in Paris.
1927 – Charles Lindbergh completes his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States.
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo from the United States.
1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering around Tokyo for several days with her lover's sexual organs, an incident that inspired numerous literary works.
1941 – German submarines sink an American ship 950 miles off the coast of Brazil during World War II.
1953 – Hajj Thami El Glaoui delivers to the Resident General in Morocco a petition bearing the signatures of 287 pashas and commanders demanding the dismissal of Sultan Muhammad V.
1980 – China launches its second intercontinental missile.
1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a Sri Lankan extremist group affiliated with the separatist Tamil Tigers, angry that he had ended Indian support for their movement.
1998 – Suharto steps down as president of Indonesia after 32 years in power.
2000 – Former Syrian Prime Minister Mahmoud Al-Zoubi, accused of corruption and under house arrest at his home, commits suicide.
2003 – An earthquake hits the province of Boumerdes, east of Algiers, killing around 2,300 people.
2006 – The Republic of Montenegro officially declares its independence from the Republic of Serbia by popular referendum. Thus, the union of Serbia and Montenegro ends.
2008 – Lebanese parties sign the “Doha Agreement” in the Qatari capital, Doha, which stipulates the election of the army commander, General Michel Suleiman, as President of the Republic and the formation of a government of national unity. the immediate dismantling of the opposition sit-in in Riad Solh Square in Beirut, underway since December 1, 2006.
2009 – On the eve of the nineteenth anniversary of Yemen's unity, former President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Ali Salem Al-Baidh calls for the secession of the south and confirms that he will lead efforts leading to this secession.
✴️ Egyptian court issues ruling to transfer papers of businessman and politician Hisham Talaat Mostafa and Mohsen Al-Sukari to Egypt's Grand Mufti Dr. Ali Gomaa after they were found guilty of the murder of Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim in Dubai in 2008. .
2011 – The Sudanese army announced its invasion of, control over, and control of the disputed town of Abyei with South Sudan and the expulsion of Sudan People's Liberation Army forces after attacking Sudanese forces. United Nations and Sudanese armed forces stationed there.
2012 – A suicide attack in Sanaa kills 120. Appointment of Arkady Dvorkovich as Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
2014 – Floods that hit southeastern Europe, which left more than 51 people dead, began to ease.
2016 – Taliban leader Akhtar Muhammad Mansour is killed by a missile launched by an American drone.
✴️ At least 23 people have died and around 500,000 others have been evacuated following Cyclone “Rowano” which hit the coast of Bangladesh.
2017 – Conclusion of the 2017 Riyadh Summit between the US President and the leaders of Arab and Islamic countries.
2019 – Indonesian President Joko Widodo wins a second presidential term after winning 55.50% of the voters' vote in the April 17, 2019 general election.
2021 – An unconditional ceasefire in Gaza, brokered by Egypt, after 11 days of clashes.
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Births:
427 BC – Plato, Greek philosopher.
1471 – Albrecht Dürer, German painter.
1527 – King Philip II, king of Spain.
1688 – Alexander Pope, English poet.
1792 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French engineer and mathematician.
1843 – Charles Albert Goba, Swiss politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1902.
1851 – Léon Bourgeois, French politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1920.
1860 – Einthoven, Dutch doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1924.
1902 – Marcel Breuer, Hungarian architect.
1912 – Shawkat Choucair, Lebanese-Syrian soldier.
1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet nuclear scientist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.
1934 – Bengt Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1982
1936 – Günter Blobel, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1999.
1942 – Hala Hosni, Syrian actress. 1944 – Mary Robinson, President of the Republic of Ireland.
1947 – Muhammad Al-Ali, Saudi actor.
1951 – Kurt Roethelsberger, Swiss football referee.
1966 – François Oumam Bieke, Cameroonian footballer.
1977 – Quinton Fortune, South African footballer.
** Qusay Khadr, a Saudi singer.
1978 – Bruno Basto, Portuguese footballer.
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Death:
619 – Abu Talib bin Abdul Muttalib, uncle of the Prophet Muhammad
913 – Ubaid Allah bin Abdullah Al-Khuza'i, Emir Taheri, Iraqi writer and poet.
1471 – King Henry VI, King of England.
1481 – King Christian I, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
1790 – Thomas Wharton, English poet.
1928 – Hideo Noguchi, Japanese microbiologist.
1929 – Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1935 – Jane Addams, American philosopher who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
1964 – James Frank, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925.
1983 – Amal Dongul, Egyptian poet.
1991 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India.
2000 – Mahmoud Al-Zoubi, Syrian Prime Minister.
2008 – Abdel-Wadud Shalabi, Egyptian thinker and religious scholar.
2011 – Nadia Ezzat, Egyptian actress.
2013 – Saleh Obaid, Tunisian politician.
2014 – Medhat El Sebaei, Egyptian director.
2015 – Jassim Al-Kharafi, Kuwaiti politician and former Speaker of the National Assembly.
2016 – Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, leader of the Taliban.
2018 – Asmaa Hamza, Sudanese singer and songwriter.
2020 – Mamoun Al-Farkh, Syrian actor and director. ** Romina Ashrafi, an Iranian child victim of an honor killing at the hands of her father.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ International Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.
◀️ Circassian day of mourning.
◀️ Independence Day in Montenegro.
◀️ Navy Day in Chile.
◀️World Tea Day.
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