It happened on this day, November 4
Events:
1890 – Britain declares Zanzibar a British protectorate.
1911 – France and Germany sign a treaty to settle their disputes over colonial interests in Morocco and the Congo, whereby France recognizes Germany's interests in the Congo and Germany recognizes France's interests in Morocco .
1922 – English Egyptologist Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamun.
1931 – British forces violently suppress a Muslim rebellion in Kashmir.
1939 – The first air-conditioned car is exhibited in Chicago.
1952 – Dwight Eisenhower wins the US presidential election.
1956 – Israeli forces reach the Suez Canal during the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt.
🌟 A quarter of a million troops and a thousand Soviet tanks invaded Hungary to crush a revolution led by Imre Nag, who declared neutrality and the country's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact.
1974 – A coup d'état overthrows military rule in Greece.
1978 – Tanks open fire on students demonstrating against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1979 – Start of the US hostage crisis, where 500 Iranian students arrested 66 US embassy staff in Tehran. The detention period lasted 444 days and they demanded the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was being treated in a detention center. New York hospital.
1986 – The Iran/Contra affair begins with news published by the Lebanese newspaper Al-Shiraa that the United States would hand over a shipment of weapons to Iran to secure the release of American hostages held in Lebanon.
1995 – Assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir.
1997 – Musician Yanni releases his twelfth album entitled “Tribute”, which contains 11 tracks.
2008 American voters go to the polls to choose the forty-fourth president of the United States from Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama and Republican Party candidate John McCain.
2012 – The structural lottery to choose a successor to the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Shenouda III, results in the selection of Bishop Tawadros as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, under the name Tawadros II.
2015 – Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned from his post after the Collective Club fire in Bucharest, in which around 200 people were killed or injured.
🌟 Antonov plane crash, killing 41 people, while on a domestic flight in South Sudan.
2016 – ISIS officially claims its first attack on Turkish territory, which leaves 11 dead and around a hundred injured.
2017 – Wydad Sports Club wins the CAF Champions League title for the second time in its history after beating Egyptian club Al-Ahly on aggregate in the final.
🌟Saudi authorities have arrested dozens of princes, businessmen and ministers on corruption-related charges.
🌟 The Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces intercepted a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis towards the capital, Riyadh, and its fragments fell near King Khalid International Airport.
🌟 Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Din Hariri suddenly announces his resignation in a televised speech from Riyadh to protest against Iran's policies in Lebanon and the Arab world.
2018 – Announcement of the result of the referendum on the independence of New Caledonia, where 56.4% of voters rejected independence from France.
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Births:
1874 – Alexander Kolchak, Russian soldier and explorer.
1879 – Will Rogers, American comedian.
1904 – Omar Al-Tilmisani, third guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.
1908 – Joseph Rotblat, British physicist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.
1926 – Muhammad Al-Toukhi, Egyptian actor.
1932 – Charles Cao, Chinese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009.
1934 – Behnam Al-Sayegh, Iraqi physician, surgeon and academic.
1936 – Alia, Tunisian singer.
1946 – Laura Bush, wife of US President George W. Bush and First Lady of the United States.
1952 – Pope Tawadros II, pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
1955 – Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland.
1975 – Mohamed Hamaki, Egyptian singer. 1977 – Jawaher, Kuwaiti actress.
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Death:
1847 – Felix Mendelssohn, German musician.
1918 – Wilfred Owen, English poet.
1921 – Daoud Saliwa, Iraqi journalist, teacher and poet.
1946 – Abu Al-Hassan Al-Musawi Al-Isfahani, Iranian-Iraqi Shiite authority and jurist.
1974 – Abdul Karim Al-Dujaili, Iraqi poet and writer.
1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister, wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.
2010 – Tahar Sharia, Tunisian director.
2012 – Shukri Al-Aqidi, Iraqi actor and director.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ National Unity Day – Russia.
⏪ Flag Day in Panama.
⏪ Victory Day in Italy.
⏪ Valentine's Day in Egypt.
