It happened on this day, May 28
events:
632 AD – The Prophet Muhammad appointed Osama bin Zaid as commander of the army which he sent to secure the borders of the Arabian Peninsula against Roman attacks.
1655 – Al-Khidr Ghilan besieges the Spanish in the town of Larache.
1736 – The Russian army carries out a massive sabotage operation in the Crimean Peninsula, which belongs to the Ottoman Empire.
1812 – The Russian Empire signs the “Treaty of Bucharest” with the Ottoman Empire, one of the most important conditions of which is that the provinces of Wallachia and Baghdad remain under Ottoman control.
1863 – Khedive Ismail succeeded in obtaining a decree from the Ottoman Empire known as the “Egyptian Decree”, which stipulated the transfer of the State of Egypt from father to eldest son, thus paving the way for Muhammad Tawfiq Pasha , son of the Khedive. Ismail, to take power in Egypt.
1940 – Belgium surrenders to the army of Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom withdraws from northern France, and the French capital, Paris, falls to Nazi forces during World War II.
1942 – Mexico declares war on the Axis forces during World War II.
1946 – The first Arab summit conference was held in the city of Anshas, Egypt under the leadership of King Farouk. Several decisions were made, the most important of which was the adherence to the independence of Palestine and the affirmation of its Arab identity.
1949 – A new German constitution is drafted to fill in the gaps in the old constitution that brought Adolf Hitler to power.
1959 – The Americans launch two monkeys into space aboard the Jupiter rocket, and they return safely after traveling 500 km in space.
1963 – A hurricane in East Pakistan kills 30,000 people and destroys thousands of homes.
1964 – King Hussein opens the first session of the Palestinian National Council in Jerusalem, during which the decision is made to establish the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1968 – The Israeli government announces the transfer of central command of the Israeli army to East Jerusalem.
1979 – Greece joins the European Economic Community.
1981 – Israeli planes attack the Damour region of Libya and destroy SAM-9 missile platforms.
1988 – The fourth summit meeting takes place between Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and American Ronald Reagan in Moscow, following a period of cooling in relations during which no summit meetings took place between the Soviets and Americans , which spanned from 1975 to 1985, when the Soviets adopted the “all or nothing” principle.
1991 – The Ethiopian Civil War ends with an agreement on Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia.
1993 – Eritrea joins the United Nations.
1995 – Bosnia and Herzegovina Foreign Minister Irfan Ljubjankić (English) is killed when his plane is shot down by Serbs.
1999 – Re-exhibition of the famous painting The Last Supper, painted by the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci, after 22 years of repair and restoration.
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Iyad Allawi to head the transitional government until general elections are held early in the year.
2005. 45 people were killed and more than 300 injured in a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Mazandaran, northern Iran, destroying 80 villages.
2008 – Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, after holding parliamentary consultations with MPs to choose the Prime Minister, tasks Fouad Siniora with forming the new government after being appointed by the majority forces.
2009 – A suicide explosion occurred during Maghrib prayers at the mosque of Commander of the Faithful Ali bin Abi Talib in the Iranian city of Zahedan, killing 20 people and injuring 50 others.
2011 – The Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt was reopened after a closure that lasted almost four years, following the Egyptian government's decision to open the crossing to women, children and men over forty years old, provided that men between the ages of eighteen and forty wishing to cross obtain a special permit to cross the crossing.
✴️ FC Barcelona defeats Manchester United 3-1 and wins the Champions League title in the match held at Wembley Stadium.
2012 – The Egyptian Presidential Electoral Commission announces the results of the first round. The result was that Freedom and Justice Party candidate Mohamed Morsi received 24.78% of the vote and Ahmed Shafiq received 23.66% of the vote, qualifying them for runner-up. round of elections.
2014 – Voting in the 2014 Egyptian presidential elections continued for the third consecutive day after the supervisory committee decided to extend the vote for another day despite the official objection of both candidates Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Hamdeen Sabahi.
2019 – The Iraqi Kurdistan Region Parliament elects Nechirvan Barzani as president of the aforementioned region after obtaining 68 votes among the representatives' votes.
2021 – Egypt's Al-Ahly wins the African Super Cup for the seventh time, after beating Moroccan RS Berkane with a score of 2-0.
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Births:
1524 – Sultan Selim II, Ottoman sultan.
1660 – King George I, king of Great Britain.
1753 – Ahmad bin Zain al-Din al-Ahsa'i, philosopher, Muslim theologian and jurist, Jaafari al-Ahsa'i.
1759 – William Pitt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1807 – Louis Agassi, Swiss geologist.
1860 – Ahmed Shafiq, Egyptian historian.
1884 – Eduard Beneš, president of Czechoslovakia.
1908 – Ian Fleming, English writer.
1912 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.
1915 – Joseph Greenberg, American linguist.
1921 – Mamoun Al-Hudaybi, the sixth guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.
1925 – Bulent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Türkiye.
1934: Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X.
1938 – George Sidhom, Egyptian actor.
1938 – Ismail Ibrahim Shatat, Palestinian poet.
1944 – Rudy Giuliani, American politician.
1947 – Zahi Hawass, Egyptian archaeologist and Minister of Antiquities.
1956 – Sayuri, Japanese actress.
1964 – Salah al-Din Darwaza, Palestinian military and political leader of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas.
1965 – Nidal Sejri, Syrian actor.
1968 – Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer.
1976 – Liam O'Brien, American voice actor.
1980 – Manal Abdel Latif, Egyptian actress.
1986 – Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer.
1996 – Farah El Zahid, Egyptian actress
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Death:
1849 – Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet.
1878 – John Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1937 – Alfred Adler, Austrian physician and founder of “individual psychology”.
1940 – Friedrich Karl, king of the Kingdom of Finland.
1972 – King Edward VIII, former king of the United Kingdom.
2003 – Ilya Prigogine, physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977.
2010 – Osama Anwar Okasha, Egyptian writer.
2013 – Abdel Aziz Shaheen, Palestinian politician and former minister.
2014 – Maya Angelou, American poet and writer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Republic Day in Azerbaijan.
⬅️ Republic Day in Armenia.
⬅️ Flag Day in the Philippines.
