It happened on this day, October 11
Events:
1138 β The Great Aleppo Earthquake occurred, considered the fourth largest fatality-causing earthquake in history.
1516 – Mamluk Tuman Bay is named Sultan of Egypt, succeeding Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri, killed at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
1727 β George II and Princess Caroline of Ansbach are crowned king and queen of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1910 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first president in the world to fly for four minutes in a plane made by the Wright Brothers in Missouri.
1963 β The United Nations condemns the policy of repression in South Africa.
1973 β Iraqi forces officially enter the Yom Kippur War.
1975 β The first episode of Saturday Night Live airs on NBC.
1977 – Assassination of the President of the Yemen Arab Republic, Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim Muhammad al-Hamdi.
1986 β The second summit takes place between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik.
1991 β Dismantling of the KGB/KGB.
1994 β The Al-Qassam Brigades kidnap a Zionist soldier named Nachshon Faxman.
2012 – The Swedish Academy announces that Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature for combining popular stories, history and contemporary times with hallucinatory realism.
2015 β Guinean President Alpha CondΓ© wins a second term after obtaining 57.85% of the vote in the presidential elections.
π₯ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko wins a fifth term after obtaining 84% of the vote in the presidential elections.
2018 – The Soyuz MS-10 space mission suffered a fault in the (carrier rocket|carrier rocket)) minutes after launch, forcing the two astronauts to make an emergency landing and return to Earth safely.
β Hurricane Michael, a category 4 hurricane (Saffir-Simpson scale), hits the state of Florida in the United States, killing six people there, after causing 13 deaths in Central America.
2019 – The Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee announces that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has won the Nobel Peace Prize, after his efforts to resolve the border conflict with Eritrea.
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Births:
1335 β Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea.
1616 – Andreas Grievous, German poet and writer.
1671 – Frederick IV, king of Denmark.
1884 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931.
** Eleanor Roosevelt, American politician, wife of American President Franklin Roosevelt and former First Lady of the United States.
1885 – FranΓ§ois Mauriac, French writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952.
1904 – Anwar Wagdy, Egyptian actor.
1922 β Kamal Al-Tawil, Egyptian composer.
1932 – Rifaat Al-Saeed, Egyptian politician.
1937 β Bobby Charlton, English footballer and manager.
1942 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor.
1944 β Rodney Marsh, English football player and manager.
1947 β Lucas Papademos, Prime Minister of Greece.
1953 β David Morse, American actor.
1956 – Nicador Duarte Frutos, president of Paraguay.
1961 – Amr Diab, Egyptian singer.
1963 – Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein, president of the Jordanian Olympic Committee.
1966 – Fahid Al-Daihani, Kuwaiti shooter.
1967 – Tony Schimmel, American broadcaster and commentator.
1970 β Shin Tae-young, South Korean footballer and coach.
1977 – Khaled Al-Qish, Syrian actor.
** Ahmed Safwat, Egyptian actor.
** Matthew Bomer, American actor.
1978 β Kale, Angolan footballer.
1980 β Tomokazu Sageta, Japanese voice actor.
1982 – Majd Naeem, Syrian actress.
1983 β Ruslan Ponomarev, Ukrainian chess player.
1985 β Alvaro FernΓ‘ndez, Uruguayan footballer.
1987 – Mike Conley Jr., American basketball player.
1989 β Henry Lau, Chinese-Canadian singer, violinist and pianist.
1990 β Sebastian Rode, German footballer.
1992 β Cardi B, American rapper.
1994 – Abdul-Ilah Al-Maliki, Saudi footballer.
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Death:
1303 β Bonifacci VIII, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1347 β Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1424 β Jan Ε½iΕΎka, Czech general.
1889 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist.
1896 β Anton Bruckner, Austrian musician.
1924 – Ismail al-Mahallati, Iranian Muslim jurist.
1963 β Edith Piaf, French singer.
1977 – Ibrahim Muhammad al-Hamdi, president of the Yemen Arab Republic.
1989 – Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, former Emirati minister.
** Marion King Hubert, American geophysicist.
1992 – Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Sawaf, Iraqi Islamic scholar, preacher and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq.
2008 β JΓΆrg Haider, Austrian politician.
2011 – Tammam Hassan, Egyptian grammarian and linguist.
2012 – Mustafa Al-Asmar, Egyptian storyteller and novelist.
2013 – Maria de Viota, Spanish Formula 1 driver.
** Wadih Al-Safi, Lebanese singer and composer.
2017 – Mohamed Rady, Egyptian director.
2019 – Alexei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut.
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Holidays and Occasions:
βͺ Revolution Day in the Republic of Macedonia.
βͺ International Day of Girls.
