It happened on this day, May 26
events:
752 – The Daibutsu opening ceremony begins at Todai-ji in Nara.
1312 – Mongol Sultan Muhammad Khudabandeh Oljaitu launches a military campaign to capture the Levant.
1865 – The American Civil War that broke out between the Northern and Southern states in 1861 ended with victory for the Northern states. This war resulted in the deaths of nearly half a million Americans and the end of slavery in the United States.
1882 – Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi resigns in protest against Khedive Tawfiq's acceptance of demands from England and France to expel Ahmed Orabi from Egypt.
1908 – Oil is discovered in abundant quantities in Iran.
1923 – The United Kingdom decides that Transjordan would be an autonomous state led by Prince Abdullah bin Sharif Hussein bin Ali as the Emirate of Transjordan.
1926 – Creation of the title of Marquis of the Rif for the Spanish military leader José Sanjurjo.
1937 – Egypt joins the League of Nations.
1942 – Start of the Battle of Ain El Ghazala as part of the events of the Second World War.
1954 – Kamal Al-Malakh discovers the chariots of the sun in the pyramid.
1959 – The International Olympic Committee approves the selection of Tokyo to host the 1964 Olympic Games.
1961 – Israel abandons its plan to divert the course of the Jordan River and begins pumping water from the eastern bank of Lake Kinneret.
1966 – Guyana declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1970 – Successful flight of the Soviet Union's first supersonic airliner.
1979 – The city of Al-Arish returns to Egyptian sovereignty thanks to the Camp David Accords.
1985 – 40,000 people died in Bangladesh due to a powerful cyclone.
✴️ The Iraqi Air Force bombed Iranian cities and areas where the Iranian army was concentrated, in response to the attempted assassination of the Emir of Kuwait in 1985.
1991 – An Austrian Lauda Airlines plane crashes near Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, killing 223 people.
1993 – The Supreme Court of Pakistan returns Nawaz Sharif to power and accuses the President of Pakistan of exceeding his powers.
2009 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy opens a French military base in Abu Dhabi, making it the first French military base in the Gulf region.
2011 – Serbia announces the arrest of the former military commander of the Bosnian Serbs, General Ratko Mladic, who is being prosecuted by international justice for war crimes.
2015 – A heatwave in India kills at least 2,500 people. Malagasy representatives announce their approval by voting for the dismissal of President Hery Rajaonarimampianina.
2017 – 28 people were killed and 26 others injured in an armed attack on buses carrying Copts in Minya governorate.
2018 – Real Madrid won the 2018 Champions League for the third time in a row and the thirteenth in its history, beating Liverpool 3-1 in the final.
2019 – Center-left and right-wing parties suffer significant losses in European Parliament elections, while liberal, far-right and regional parties make significant gains.
✴️ Egyptian club Zamalek won the African Confederation Cup championship after defeating Moroccan team Nahdet Berkane in the final.
2020 – Protests and riots in Minneapolis and other parts of the United States, following the murder of George Floyd.
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Births:
1478 – Pope Clement VII, pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1566 – Sultan Mehmed III, the thirteenth Ottoman sultan.
1667 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician.
1867 – Queen Mary, wife of George V of the United Kingdom.
1907 – Sheikh Ahmed Hassan Al-Baqouri, Egyptian cleric.
**John Wayne, American actor.
1909 – Matt Busby, Scottish footballer.
1928 – Jack Kevorkian, American physician.
1946 – Aziza Rashed, Egyptian actress.
1949 – Pam Grier, American actress.
** Ward Cunningham, American programmer.
1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut.
1957 – Alaa Al-Aswany, Egyptian novelist.
1959 – Nadine, Syrian actress.
1967 – Mika Yamamoto, Japanese journalist. Helena Bonham Carter, English actress. Hiroki Tochi, Japanese voice actor.
1968 – Prince Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark.
1973 – Maysoon Azzam, Palestinian journalist. Nidal Najm, Jordanian actor.
1975 – Nikki Aycox, American actress.
1977 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer.
1979 – Ashley Massaro, American wrestler.
1986 – Muhammad Rakan, Kuwaiti footballer.
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Death:
950 – Abu Jaafar al-Nahhas, one of the imams of language and interpretation of the fourth century AH.
1172 – Yahya bin Saadoun, jurist, commentator, hadith scholar, reciter and grammarian from Andalusia.
1421 – Sultan Mehmed I, Ottoman sultan.
1512 – Sultan Bayezid II, Ottoman sultan.
1693 – Muhammad bin Al-Hasan Al-Hurr Al-Amili, Lebanese Shia religious scholar, jurist, authority and hadith scholar.
1863 – Mufti Abdul Ghani Al Jamil, Iraqi jurist, scholar, calligrapher, poet and politician.
1883 – Abdelkader Al-Jazairi, founder of the modern state of Algeria and leader of the resistance against the French occupation of Algeria.
1906 – Christoph Friedrich Hegelmayer, German physicist and botanist.
1908 – Ghulam Ahmad Al-Qadiyani, founder of the Ahmadiyya sect.
1933 – Jimmy Rogers, American singer.
1948 – Emile Chassignat, French Egyptologist.
1970 – Abdel Khaleq Al-Taris, Moroccan journalist and politician.
1976 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher.
1989 – Don Revie, English footballer and manager.
1996 – Hossam Mohib, pioneer of animation, film tricks and commercials, Egyptian.
2006 – Abdulaziz Al-Mansour Al-Arfaj, Kuwaiti director.
2008 – Sidney Pollack, American director, producer and actor.
2014 – Fayza Kamal, Egyptian actress.
2015 – Munqith Al-Ali, Syrian sports broadcaster.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ National holiday in Georgia.
◀️ Mother's Day in Poland.
◀️ National Day of Bereavement in Australia.
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