It happened on this day, May 30
events:
634 – Muslims, led by Khalid bin Al-Walid, defeat the Romans and conquer the city of Busra in the Levant.
1431 – Joan of Arc is publicly burned after being tried for witchcraft.
1559 – The “Konya War” breaks out between Sultan Selim II and his brother Bayezid over issues related to the crown prince of the Ottoman Empire.
1764 – Charles Messier discovers one of the closed star clusters in the constellation Ophiuchus.
1780 – Moroccan ambassador Ibn Othman Al-Miknassi signs a treaty between Morocco and Spain in Aranjuez.
1837 – Prince Abdelkader and General Thomas Robert Piguet sign the Treaty of Tafna, representing the French army, after a series of Algerian victories over the French. The treaty stipulated that Prince Abdelkader would recognize the sovereignty of the French Empire in Africa in exchange for his sovereignty. cession of approximately two thirds of Algeria for the benefit of the “Emirate of Algeria”.
1876 - Overthrow of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Aziz I.
1958 – Sugamo Prison, intended for Japanese war criminals, is closed.
1959 – Proclamation of the Constitution of Singapore.
1967 – King Hussein and Gamal Abdel Nasser sign the Joint Defense Agreement between Egypt and Jordan.
1982 – Spain becomes the sixteenth member of NATO.
1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale hits northern Afghanistan, killing 5,000 people.
2007 – The Security Council issues Resolution No. 1757 regarding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon regarding the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
2009 – Iran executes 3 people accused of involvement in the Zahedan mosque bombing, a day after the mosque bombing.
2016 – The Extraordinary Court of African Chambers sentences former Chadian military leader Hissène Habré to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of crimes against humanity.
2018 – A labor strike in all governorates of Jordan to protest the amended income tax bill, which the government submitted to the National Assembly for review and approval.
2019 – A series of bombings hit Kirkuk governorate in northern Iraq, killing between 3 and 5 people and injuring 18 others.
2020 – The number of confirmed infections from the coronavirus pandemic exceeds six million people worldwide, including more than 367 thousand deaths and approximately two million 684 thousand recovered cases. ✴️The launch of the first crewed mission of the Dragon 2 spacecraft, manufactured by SpaceX, towards the International Space Station.
✴️ Israeli Border Police soldiers kill Iyad al-Hallaq, a young disabled Palestinian, near Lions Gate in Old Jerusalem, State of Palestine.
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Births:
1757 – Henry Addington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1863 – Hassan Musa Khan, Australian writer.
1887 – Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian painter and sculptor.
1908 – Hans Alvvén, Swedish plasma physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908
1970. Mel Blanc, American voice actor.
1909 – Benny Goodman, American jazz musician.
1934 – Alexei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut.
** Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach.
1946 – Dragan Dzajic, Serbian footballer.
1951 – Fernando Lugo, president of Paraguay.
1956 – Anthony Dominic, Indian judge.
1966 – Thomas Hasler, German footballer.
1969 – Marah Jabr, Syrian actress.
1972 – Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese voice actor.
1974 – Konstantios Chalkias, Greek footballer.
1977 – Mubarak Al-Arro, deputy in the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
1979 – Rei Kigimiya, Japanese actress.
1980 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer.
** Ryohgo Narita is a Japanese light novel writer.
1981 – Ahmed Al-Rish, Australian rules footballer.
1994 – Haya Maraachli, Lebanese actress.
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Death:
1252 – King Fernando III, king of León and Castile.
1431 – Joan of Arc, French saint.
1574 – King Charles IX, king of France.
1584 – Abu Al-Saadat Al-Fakihi, Hejazi jurist, writer and poet.
1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright.
1640 – Pierre Paul Rubens, Belgian painter.
1744 – Alexander Pope, English poet.
1778 – Voltaire, French writer.
1912 – Wilbur Wright, one of the American Wright brothers who invented the airplane.
1918 – Georgy Plekhanov, Russian philosopher and theorist.
1934 – Marquis Heihachiro Togo, Commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet.
1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958.
2006 – Imamura Shohei, Japanese director.
2009 – Jaafar Numeiri, President of the Republic of Sudan.
** Efraim Katzir, President of Israel.
2011 – Rosalyn Yalow, American physician who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1977.
2012 – Sir Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and biophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1963.
2018 – Madiha Yousry, Egyptian actress.
2020 Hassan Hosni, Egyptian actor.
** Iyad Al-Hallaq, a young Palestinian with autism.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Regional Day in the Canary Islands.
