It happened on this day, May 8
events:
1879 – American inventor George Seldin files a patent for the first gasoline-powered car.
1896 – Mubarak Al-Sabah assassinates his brother, ruler Muhammad bin Sabah Al-Sabah, and Mubarak Al-Sabah takes control of Kuwait.
1914 – Creation of the Paramount film production company.
1918 – Nicaragua declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during World War I.
1921 – The death penalty is abolished in Sweden.
1936 – France issues a decision considering Arabic a foreign language in Algeria.
1937 – Foundation of the Wydad Sports Club in Morocco.
(1945-Major massacres took place in Algeria killing around 45,000 people after the Algerians demonstrated to demand that France respect its promise to grant them independence at the end of World War II known as the May 8, 1945 massacres
1951 – Japan is allowed to return to the Olympics.
1967 – Boxer Muhammad Ali Clay is tried for evading military service in the United States Army, which was waging the war in Vietnam.
1968 – The Japanese Ministry of Health declares the Itai-Itai disease that appeared in Toyama Prefecture an epidemic.
1976 – Elias Sarkis is elected President of the Lebanese Republic, succeeding President Suleiman Franjieh, four months before the end of his term. He will assume the presidency after the end of President Franjieh's term.
1984 – The Soviet Union announces its boycott of the Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles.
✴️ Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is the victim of a failed assassination attempt.
2004 – German authorities arrest an 18-year-old student suspected of being responsible for launching the “Sasser” virus, which disabled at least 18 million computers.
2008 – The Russian Parliament approves the nomination of former President Vladimir Putin as Prime Minister.
2014 – The former Carlton Hotel building in old Aleppo was bombed by Syrian opposition fighters through a booby-trapped tunnel dug underneath, claiming the hotel was being used as a headquarters for army operations Syrian.
2018 – Mahathir Mohamad's coalition wins Malaysia's general election with a majority of 125 seats, becoming Prime Minister for the second time.
✴️ American President Donald Trump announces his country's withdrawal from the nuclear agreement concluded with Iran since April 2, 2015.
2021 – 68 people were killed and 165 injured, mostly female students under the age of eighteen, in bomb attacks on a girls' school in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Births:
1828 – Jean-Henri Dunant, Swiss businessman and founder of the Red Cross, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
** Saint Charbel, a Lebanese saint.
1884 – Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States.
1893 – Francis Ouimet, American golfer.
1899 – Friedrich von Hayek, Austrian-British economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974.
1902 – André Loew, French microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1965.
1906 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director.
1916 – João Havelange, former president of FIFA.
1934 – Zein El Ashmawy, Egyptian actor.
1935 – Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager.
1939 – Jean Obaid, Lebanese politician.
1942 – Terry Neal, Northern Irish footballer-manager.
(1945–MonaIbrahimEgyptian actress
1947 – Robert Horvitz, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2002.
1950 – Abdel Hadi Sabbagh, Syrian actor.
1955 – Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
1960 – Franco Baresi, Italian footballer and coach.
1962 – Masaaki Terasuma, Japanese voice actor.
1965 – Keiji Inafune, Japanese designer and producer.
1966 – Claudio Taffarel, Brazilian football goalkeeper.
1970 – Luis Enrique, Spanish footballer.
1971 – Chuck Huber, American voice actor.
1975 – Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer.
1978 – Lucio, Brazilian footballer.
1980 – Takanori Hoshino, Japanese voice actor.
1981 – Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer.
1985 – Soma, Egyptian singer and actress.
1987 – Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Commander of the Bahraini Royal Guard, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Youth and Sports and President of the Bahrain Olympic Committee.
1996 – Six Nine, American rapper.
2003 – Prince Hassan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Morocco.
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Death:
1462 – Ibrahim bin Muhammad al-Tazi, mystic and poet from the Maghreb.
1773 – Ali Bey the Great, Mamluk sultan of Egypt.
1794 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist.
1819 – King Kamehameha I, king of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1822 – John Stark, American soldier participating in the War of Independence.
1873 – John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist.
1880 – Gustave Flaubert, French writer.
1903 – Paul Gauguin, French painter.
1936 – Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher.
1983 – John Fante, American novelist.
1987 – Muhammad Ali Hamadeh, Lebanese politician, diplomat and journalist.
1997 – Salim Al-Basri, Iraqi actor.
2001 – Lola Sedqy, Egyptian actress.
2002 – Ahmed Mazhar, Egyptian actor.
2007 – Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Al Saud, Saudi poet and writer.
2011 – Faisal Mawlawi, Lebanese Islamic preacher and thinker.
2012 – Maurice Sendak, American writer of children's literature.
2020 – Talaat Muslim, Egyptian military and strategic expert.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ An occasion of commemoration and reconciliation in honor of the memory of all the victims of the Second World War
◀️ Victory in Europe Day.
◀️ Father's Day in South Korea.
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