It happened on this day, October 13
Events:
54 AD – Nero takes the throne of the Roman Empire.
1307 – All the Templars of France are arrested on the orders of King Philip IV in coordination with Clement V.
1792 – The cornerstone is laid for the White House building in the United States to become the permanent residence of the American president.
1812 – The Battle of Queenston Heights occurs, the first major battle of the War of 1812 between the forces of the United States of America on the one hand and the forces of the British Empire on the other, and ends by victory. of the British army.
1837 – French forces manage to enter the Algerian city of Constantine, more than seven years after the French invasion began.
1881 – The revival of the Hebrew language when Eliezer Ben Yehuda and his friends agree to use it exclusively in their conversations.
1909 – Anarchist Francisque Ferrer is sentenced to death in Barcelona after the events of Tragic Week.
1911 – Italian forces begin landing on the Libyan coast at the start of the land campaign to occupy Libya.
1923 – The Turkish capital is moved to Ankara, instead of Istanbul, the historic capital of the Ottomans.
1944 – Riga, the capital of Latvia, falls to the Red Army.
1954 – Announcement of the establishment of the National Union Authority in Bahrain, a national liberation movement that resisted British colonialism and tribal backlash.
1970 – Formation of the Saeb Salam Ministry in Lebanon, the first government led by President Suleiman Franjieh.
1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes. But the survivors were found after 72 days due to their isolation at 3,600 meters above sea level in the mountains.
1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand the release of 11 members of the Red Army group.
1988 – Announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz
1990 – Lebanese-Syrian military operation against the commander of the Lebanese army, Prime Minister of the military government, Michel Aoun, locked in the presidential palace of Baabda and considered a rebel. The operation led to Aoun's departure from power. Presidential Palace and the assassination and arrest of many of his supporters.
🌟 Opening of the works of the Kuwaiti People's Conference held in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, under the patronage of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, to discuss the occupation of Kuwait by Iraq.
1998 The Yugoslav government agrees to implement the UN Security Council resolution granting autonomy to the Albanian-majority province of Kosovo.
2012 – Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was shot and injured, after which he was transferred to the military hospital in Nouakchott and then to France for treatment.
2016 – Announcement of Bob Dylan's victory in the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.
🌟 Selection of former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres as new Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding Ban Ki-moon.
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Births:
1895 – Cemal Gursel, President of Turkey.
1899 – Fouad Shafik, Egyptian actor.
1925 – Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1938 – Nahida Al-Rammah, Iraqi actress.
1948 – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani singer and musician.
1949 – Hamadi Jebali, Tunisian Prime Minister.
1958 – Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist and media personality.
1964 – Hoda Al Khatib, Emirati actress.
1969 – Omar Tetradze, Russian footballer.
** Mohamed Jameel Ahmed, fourth vice-president of the Maldives.
1972 – Fouad Anwar, Saudi footballer.
1979 – Wes Brown, English footballer.
1980 – Dora, Tunisian actress
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Death:
1926 – Shourida Shirazi, Iranian poet.
1940 – Daoud Abu Shakra, Lebanese policeman.
1950 – Muhammad Taher Al-Samawi, Iraqi jurist, literary historian and poet.
1973 – Albert Mandler, Israeli soldier.
** Kamel Sultan Al-Khafaji, Iraqi pilot captain.
1990 – Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese politician and soldier who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
1995 – Ali Fayek Zaghloul, Egyptian journalist.
2007 – Fatima Moussa, Egyptian academic, critic and translator.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Feast of Saint Edward the Confessor in Catholicism.
