It happened on this day, October 14
Events:
222 – Pope Callistus I was killed by a mob in Rome.
1758 – Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hotchkirk during the Seven Years' War.
1812 – Work begins on the Regent's Canal in London.
1840 – Lebanese Prince Bashir II Al-Shihabi surrenders to the British army, who then exile him to Malta.
1884 – American inventor George Eastman receives a patent for photographic film.
1907 – Signing of a treaty between Emperor Nicholas II of the Russian Empire and Emperor Meiji of Japan, ending the Russo-Japanese War.
1918 – The Ottoman Empire announces its capitulation in World War I.
1925 – An uprising against the French occupation of Syria breaks out in Damascus.
1927 – The first oil field is discovered in Kirkuk, Iraq.
1933 – Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1937 – The British government draws the border between Syria and Palestine.
1938 – Agreement between the British and Arabs to stop Jewish immigration to Palestine for two years.
1944 – German Nazi leader Erwin Rommel commits suicide, preferring suicide to a public military trial and then being shot.
1951 – El Salvador signs the Charter of the Central American Organization.
1953 – The “101st Division of the Israeli Army”, led by Ariel Sharon, storms the Palestinian village of Qibya at night and opens fire, resulting in the death of 66 Palestinians, injury of the weakest and destruction of 45 houses. , known as the Qibya massacre.
1962 – Start of the Soviet missile crisis on Cuban soil.
1963 – The October 14 Revolution begins in South Yemen from the Radfan Mountains against British colonialism.
🌟 Conclude a treaty to define the borders between Kuwait and Iraq. 1964 – Nikita Khrushchev is dismissed as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and Leonid Brezhnev is chosen to succeed him.
🌟 Presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize to American pastor Martin Luther King.
1973 – The air battle of Mansoura took place as part of the events of the October War.
1974 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is granted observer status at the United Nations in a General Assembly vote.
1981 – Mohamed Hosni Mubarak assumes the presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt, succeeding President Mohamed Anwar Sadat after his assassination on October 6.
1990 – The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the first time to a communist leader.
2004 – Former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, returns to his country for the first time after being ousted by his son, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, on June 27.
1995 to attend his wife's burial ceremony.
2007 – Four Yemeni citizens were killed on the anniversary of South Yemen's revolution against British colonialism in Al-Habilain by Yemeni security forces.
2008 – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issues a decree establishing diplomatic relations between Syria and Lebanon and opening a Syrian embassy in Beirut.
2012 – Felix Baumgartner achieved the first record by breaking the sound barrier by performing a free jump from a balloon reaching a height of 39,000 meters at the edge of the atmosphere.
🌟 The Libyan General National Congress elects Ali Zaidan as head of the new government in the next transition phase.
2013 – Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences of the year
2013 Awarded to Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller.
2016 – UNESCO's Programs and External Relations Committee issues a resolution deeming the Al-Aqsa Mosque a sacred Islamic site and condemning Israel for its practices there, and Israel opposes it.
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Births:
793 – Idris II, Sultan Idrisi.
1156 – (Ilyas bin Jami' al-Irbli), Muslim scholar and Iraqi Arab poet.
1873 – Jules Rimet, president of FIFA.
1890 – Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States.
1906 – Hassan Al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
**Hannah Arendt, German political theorist.
1917 – Marshal. Ahmed Ismail Ali, Egyptian Minister of Defense.
1928 – Nazik, Lebanese actress and singer working in Egypt.
1930 – Mobutu Seseseko, president of Zaire.
1938 – Empress Farah Diba, wife of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1939 – Mohamed Rady, Egyptian director.
1939 – Salah Issa, Egyptian journalist and historian.
1954 – Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear scientist.
1961 – Khaled El Gendy, Egyptian Islamic preacher.
1968 – Sawsan Mikhail, Syrian actress.
1969 – Ali Marawi, Kuwaiti footballer.
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Death:
1095 – Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, emir of Seville during the reign of the Taifa kings.
1932 – Ahmed Shawqi, Egyptian poet.
1944 – Erwin Rommel, German military commander nicknamed the Desert Fox.
1973 – Ahmed Hamdy, Egyptian engineer.
1999 – Julius Nyerere, president of Tanzania.
2010 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Franco-American mathematician.
2016 – Farouk Shousha, Egyptian poet, writer and radio host.
2018 – Abdulaziz Jassim, Qatari actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Anniversary of the revolution in South Arabia
⏪ World Standards Day.
⏪ Arab Environment Day.
⏪ Egyptian Air Force Day.
⏪ Physical Education Day in Japan.
⏪ Teachers' Day in Poland.
