It happened on this day, May 23
events:
822 – Abd al-Rahman bin Muhammad bin Abdullah takes power in Andalusia after the death of his grandfather, Prince Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman.
1040 – Seljuk Sultan Tughrul Bey defeats the army of the Ghaznavid State in the Battle of Dandqan, captures Khorasan and forces the Ghaznavids to recognize the Seljuk State as the largest and most powerful state in the region.
1524 – Tahmasp I sits on the throne of the Safavid state, succeeding his father, Shah Ismail I.
1533 – Announcement of the annulment and invalidity of the marriage of Henry VIII, King of England, to Catherine of Aragon.
1908 – The city of Buraidah comes under the rule of King Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia.
1911 – President William Howard Taft opens the New York Public Library, the largest marble structure ever built in New York.
1915 – Italy declares war on Germany and joins the Allies, after the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on it in World War I.
1918 – Costa Rica declares war on Germany during World War I.
1926 – The creation of the Lebanese Republic is declared after the House of Representatives approves the constitution.
1933 – Tunisians protest against the decision of the Resident General of France to create a public cemetery for Muslims and Christians.
1949 – Announcement of the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1960 – Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces the arrest of Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
1967 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announces the closure of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, and this closure is responsible for the outbreak of the 1967 war.
1989 – Start of the Seventeenth Arab Summit in Casablanca, in which Egypt participates for the first time after the Arab boycott.
2001 – German club Bayern Munich wins the Champions League for the fourth time in its history by beating Spanish club Valencia on penalties.
2009 – German magazine Der Spiegel publishes an article claiming that there is evidence indicating Hezbollah's involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
✴️Announcement of the suicide of former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
2012 – Start of the voting process for the Egyptian presidential elections, the first elections after the January 25 revolution and the fall of the regime of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak.
2017 – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announces martial law on the island of Mindanao due to military clashes between the Philippine government and the Mawati and Abu Sayyaf groups in the predominantly Muslim city of Marawi.
2018 – Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri wins a sixth presidential term after winning 98 out of 128 parliamentary votes.
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Births:
1707 – Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist.
1891 – Bär Lagerqvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951.
1892 – Pichichi, Spanish footballer.
1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972.
1910 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician.
1917 – Edward Norton Lorentz, American mathematician and meteorologist.
1925 – Joshua Lederberg, American doctor who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1958.
1949 – Alan Garcia, president of Peru.
1950 – Richard Chase, an American criminal
1965 – Manuel Sánchez, Spanish footballer. Kabe Yamagichi, Japanese voice actor.
1969 – Sheikh Talal Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, president of the Kuwait Football Federation.
1974 – Jewel, American singer.
1976 – Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer.
1977 – Dhia Jubaili, Iraqi writer and storyteller.
1980 – Theofanis Gekkas, Greek footballer.
1988 – Mohamed Ramadan, Egyptian actor.
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Death:
1333 – Hojo Takatoki, Japanese ruler.
1498 – Savonarola, ruler of Florence.
1524 – Ismail al-Safavi, Shah of Iran and founder of the Safavid state.
1701 – William Kidd, Scottish pirate.
1857 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician.
1868 – Kit Carson, American scout.
1906 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright.
(1945-Heinrich HimmlerMinister of Security and SS of Nazi Germany
1981 – Muhammad Khairy, Syrian singer.
1993 – Zainab Sedqi, Egyptian actress.
1997 – Abdullah Khuraibet, Kuwaiti actor, playwright and director.
2004 – Muhammad Dhaif Allah Al-Qahs, deputy in the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
2005 – Abdulaziz Hamad Al-Saqr, Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
2009 – Roh Moo-hyun, president of South Korea.
2015 – John Forbes Nash, American mathematician.
2017 – Ali Al-Buraiki, Kuwaiti actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️World Turtle Day.
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