It happened on this day, November 12
Events:
1793 – Jean-Sylvain Baye, first mayor of Paris, is executed by guillotine.
1847 – British physician James Young Simpson uses chloroform in anesthesia for the first time in history.
1905 – Norway holds a referendum on whether it wants to become a kingdom or a republic, and the result goes in favor of supporters of the monarchy.
1914 – The Ottoman Empire officially announces its joining the Axis Powers consisting of the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I.
1927 – Communist leader Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party after a power struggle with Joseph Stalin.
1938 – Hermann Goering proposes a plan to make Madagascar a national homeland for Jews.
1948 – A death sentence is handed down to Japan's World War II Prime Minister, General Hideki Tojo.
1956 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
🌟 Khan Yunis massacre, perpetrated by the Israeli army against Palestinian refugees in the Khan Yunis camp.
1976 – Creation of the commune of Apatou in French Guiana by separating its territory from the commune of Grand Santé.
1982 – Yuri Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as head of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet Union.
1990 – Emperor Akihito is officially installed as Emperor of Japan.
1996 – Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 and a Kazakhstan Airlines plane collide in the skies over New Delhi, killing more than 349 passengers, making it the deadliest air accident in history.
1998 – The Kuwaiti national football team wins the Gulf Football Cup for the ninth time in its history during the tournament held in Bahrain.
2001 – The Taliban withdraw from the Afghan capital, Kabul, before the arrival of Afghan Northern Alliance forces, during the US war in Afghanistan.
2003: 23 people are killed in a suicide attack against an Italian police base in Nassiriya.
2006 – The Autonomous Republic of South Ossetia within the Republic of Georgia holds a popular referendum to vote on the independence of Georgia, the result of which is approval of independence.
2011 – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns from his post after losing his parliamentary majority a few days ago. He announced that he would resign when both houses of Parliament approve austerity measures demanded by the European Union in a bid to restore market confidence. in the Italian economy.
2014 – The Philae lander of the Rosetta mission successfully lands on the surface of comet 67P/Churimov-Gerasimenko for the first time in history, 10 years after its launch on March 2, 2004.
2015 – A suicide attack in the Hezbollah town of Burj al-Barajneh, in the southern Beirut suburbs, killing around 41 people.
2017 – A strong earthquake struck the border areas between Iran and Iraq with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale. Its epicenter was in the Iranian city of Kermanshah and its impact reached neighboring countries.
A 🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍
Births:
1817 – Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i Faith.
1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1904.
1853 – Oscar Panica, German writer.
1866 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese politician.
1925 – Nour El-Demerdash, Egyptian director.
1931 – Hend Rostom, Egyptian actress.
1933 – Jalal Talabani, Kurdish politician and President of the Iraqi Republic.
1934 – Ahmed Al-Saadoun, Kuwaiti politician.
1939 – Mahmoud Al-Qalaawi, Egyptian actor.
** Muhammad Abdel Wali, left-wing Yemeni novelist and intellectual.
1951 – Fayza Abu Al-Naga, Egyptian diplomat and politician.
1964 – Khaled Saleh, Egyptian actor.
1977 – Maya Diab, Lebanese singer and presenter.
1989 – Aseel Omran, Saudi singer and actress.
1993 – Nour Al-Ghandour, Egyptian actress working in Kuwait.
A 🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍
Death:
1035 – Canute the Great, king of Denmark, Norway and England.
1793 – Jean-Sylvain Baye, first mayor of Paris.
1859 – Abu Al-Hasan Al-Jandqi: Iranian poet, writer and mystic.
1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer.
1990 – Eve Arden, American actress.
1996 – Mohamed Taha, Egyptian singer.
1996 – Khaled Al-Shubaili, Saudi pilot.
2005 – Abdul Malik bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince.
2007 – Younes Shalabi, Egyptian actor.
2010 – Abdel Rahman Al-Jilali, Algerian jurist and thinker.
2015 – Naila Faran, Saudi doctor specializing in nuclear medicine.
2016 – Turki II bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, former Saudi Deputy Minister of Defense and Aviation.
** Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actor.
2018 – Stan Lee, American comic book writer and creator of most Marvel Comics characters (such as Spider-Man, Hulk and others).
🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍
Holidays and Occasions:
⏪Constitution Day in Azerbaijan.
⏪Sun Yat-sen's birthday in Taiwan.
⏪The day of birth of Bahá'í in the Bahá'í Faith.
