It happened on this day, November 20
Events:
1610 – Sheikh Al-Mamoun hands over Larache to Philip III, King of Spain.
1710 – The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire manages to win this war in what is called the Prut River Campaign.
1815 – Signing of the Treaty of Paris after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo.
1832 – Prince Abdelkader Ibn Muhyiddin is named Sultan of Algeria after his father's abdication. He was then 25 years old.
1924 – The assassination of Sir Major General Lee Stack, Sardar of the Egyptian Army and Governor General of Sudan, by an Egyptian citizen.
1935 – Syrian mujahid Izz al-Din al-Qassam is killed after British forces surround the town of Ya`bad and a firefight takes place between the two teams.
(1945–Beginning of the Nuremberg Tribunal against 24 Nazis after the end of the Second World War
1947 – Legendary wedding ceremony in London on the occasion of the marriage of the Crown Princess of the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), to the former Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, who renounced her titles to marry her.
1951 – More than 1,000 British families leave the city of Ismailia, one of the cities located on the Suez Canal, after a firefight that left five British and ten Egyptian soldiers dead.
1970 – General Hafez al-Assad, leader of the coup in Syria, forms a new ministry of 26 ministers and keeps the Ministry of Defense for himself.
1971 – Iran controls the islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb.
1979 – Juhayman Al-Otaibi and his supporters storm the Grand Mosque in Mecca and announce the appearance of the expected Mahdi.
1980 – The trial of the “Gang of Four” begins in Beijing, including that of the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong.
2001 – US President George W. Bush names the Department of Justice building after Robert Kennedy in his honor.
2013 – Appearance of Nishino Island, located in the Pacific Ocean and belonging to Japan, after the eruption of a volcano in the ocean.
2015 – Armed men arrest 170 people at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali.
2016 – A train derailment in the town of Pokhrayan, near the city of Kanpur, India, killing more than 140 people.
2017 – The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court issues a decision annulling the results of the referendum on the secession of the Kurdistan region, after an agreement with the regional government.
🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎One
Births:
1794 – Eduard Rubel, German naturalist and explorer.
1955 – Ray Ozzie, American software entrepreneur
1968 – James Dutton, American astronaut.
1970 – Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates
1982 – Rémy Matisse, French historian and curator
1982 – Shermin Shahrivar, Iranian model
1988 – Aya Madani, Egyptian modern pentathlon player.
1996 – David Concha, Spanish footballer.
1996 – Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer
2000 – Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter
A 🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍
Death:
1764 – Christian Goldbach, German mathematician.
1894 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer.
1910 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist.
1924 – Sir Major General. Lee Stack, Sardar of the Egyptian Army and Governor General of Sudan.
1935 – Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Syrian mujahid.
1967 – Gabor Andrianski, Hungarian botanist and explorer.
1975 – Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain.
1976 – Abdul Aziz Al-Jawahiri, Iraqi poet and literary translator.
1978 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter.
2005 – Manouchehr Achi, Iranian poet and journalist.
2011 – Talaat Sadat, Egyptian lawyer and politician.
🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎One
Holidays and Occasions:
⏪Children's Day.
⏪ International Children's Rights Day.
⏪ Africa Industrialization Day.
⏪ Teachers’ Day in Vietnam.
