It happened on this day, November 16
Events:
636 AD – The Battle of Al-Qadisiyah begins between the Muslims led by Saad bin Abi Waqqas and the Persians led by Rustam Farrokhzad, thus ending the Sasanian era.
1272 – During the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward I becomes king of England upon the death of Henry III and ascends the throne upon his return two years later.
1626 – Native Americans sell the island of Manhattan for $24 worth of cloth.
1869 – Khedive Ismail inaugurates the Suez Canal in a solemn ceremony in the city of Ismailia in the presence of a large number of European kings and princes.
1907 – Oklahoma is annexed to the United States to become the 46th state.
1917 – The British take control of Jaffa in Palestine and evacuate the Ottomans.
1918 – Declaration of the Tripolitan Republic in Libya.
1932 – Foundation of the Syrian Social-Nationalist Party.
(1945–The United States brings in 88 German scientists to help produce missile technology and most of these scientists work under the command of the Nazi regime
✴️ Creation of the United Nations Educational, Teaching and Cultural Organization/UNESCO.
1955 – King Mohammed V of Morocco returns to Rabat from his exile in Madagascar.
1970 – Syrian Defense Minister Hafez al-Assad leads a military coup known as the Corrective Movement.
1973 – As part of the Skylab program, NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral for an 84-day mission.
1990 – Iraqi authorities in Kuwait fail to convince Kuwaitis to replace their Kuwaiti civil cards with Iraqi ID cards and extend the deadline for canceling Kuwaiti cards until December 1.
1993 – Official economic negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis begin in Paris. The Palestinian delegation was led by Director General of Economic Affairs Ahmed Qurei and the Israeli delegation was led by Danny Rothschild.
1994 – The Saudi national football team wins the 12th Gulf Cup hosted in the United Arab Emirates.
1996 – Mother Teresa receives honorary U.S. citizenship for her efforts on behalf of the world's poor.
2000 – U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Vietnam, becoming the first U.S. president to visit Vietnam since the Vietnam War.
2004 – The United States Aeronautics and Space Administration/NASA successfully tests an aircraft exceeding speeds ten times the speed of sound, called “X-43A”.
2008 – Iraqi Council of Ministers approves the signing of the security agreement with the United States.
2010 – Announcement of the engagement of Prince William, son of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and second in line to the British throne, to his girlfriend, Kate Middleton.
2011 – Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti announces the formation of his government, composed mainly of technocrats.
2018 – Japanese authorities arrest Renault-Nissan Alliance chief Carlos Ghosn to investigate him on charges related to financial and administrative corruption.
✴️ The International Committee of Weights and Measures redefines the units of kilogram, ampere, kelvin and mole.
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Births:
42 BC – Tiberius, second Roman emperor.
1643 – Jean Chardin, Anglo-French explorer and jeweler.
1717 – Lorne d'Alembert, French mathematician.
1780 – Abdul Ghani Al Jamil, Iraqi jurist, scholar, calligrapher, poet and politician.
1880 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet.
1891 – Istvan Rusti, Egyptian actor.
1901- Michel Al-Maghribi, Syrian poet.
1904 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, first president of Nigeria.
1916 – Mary Queenie, Egyptian actress and producer.
1922 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
1935 – Hussein El-Sherbiny, Egyptian actor.
1953 – Pirom An Prasit, Thai football referee.
** Saleh Al-Hamar, Kuwaiti actor and director.
1964 – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian actress.
1970 – Rikido Koshi, Japanese mangaka.
1971 – Mustafa Hajji, Moroccan footballer.
1972 – Adel Al-Salimi, Tunisian footballer.
1974 – Maha Ahmed, Egyptian actress.
** Paul Scholes, English footballer.
1977 – Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress.
** Mauricio Ochman, Mexican actor.
1978 – Gary Naismith, Scottish footballer.
1984 – Mark Bann, English footballer.
1993 – Pete Davidson, Nigerian footballer.
1995 – Noah Gray-Kibbe, American actor.
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Death:
1093 – Saint Margaret, English saint and archbishop.
1219 – Abu Zakaria al-Tikriti, Shafi'ite jurist, judge, linguist and Iraqi Arab poet.
1272 – King Henry III, king of England.
1797 – Frederick William II, King of Prussia.
1802 – André Michaux, French botanist.
1808 – Mustafa IV, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1836 – Christian Hendrik Persson, South African botanist.
1946 – Abdel Rahman bin Zidane, Moroccan historian.
1960 – Clark Gable, American actor.
1977 – Raji Al-Rai, Lebanese publisher, poet and lawyer.
1999 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1978.
2005 – Henry Taub, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1983.
2006 – Milton Friedman, American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1976.
2008 – Salah El-Din Hafez, Egyptian writer.
2010 Kamal El Shazly, Egyptian politician.
** Britton Chance is an American academic.
2015 – David Canary, American actor.
2019 – Fawzia Abdel Sattar, Egyptian politician and human rights activist.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ International Day of Tolerance.
