It happened on this day, October 15
Events:
1529 End of the siege of Vienna imposed on it by the Ottoman army led by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
1912 – Alfred Wegener succeeds in formulating the theory of continental drift.
1913 – Taimur bin Faisal becomes Sultan of Oman and Muscat.
1918 – Belkacem Al-Nakadi defeats the French at the Battle of Batha.
1946 – Hermann Goering drinks poison and commits suicide hours before his death sentence after being found guilty by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
1950 – Beginning of the entry of Chinese forces into Korean territory.
1951 – British forces deploy to occupy the Canal Region, after the Egyptian Parliament approves Prime Minister Mustafa El-Nahhas' decision to annul the 1936 treaty.
1955 – Arab States Broadcasting Union established.
1963 – Withdrawal of French forces from Tunisia.
1964 – Detonation of the first Chinese atomic bomb.
1969 Assassination of Somali President Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.
1990 – The Kuwaiti People's Conference held in Jeddah concluded its proceedings by issuing a final declaration including many issues related to the liberation of Kuwait from the Iraqi occupation forces. The conference declared its categorical rejection of Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. There should be no haggling or negotiation over Kuwait's sovereignty.
2003 – Ilham Aliyev is elected president of Azerbaijan, succeeding his ailing father, Heydar Aliyev.
2004 – Kuwaiti channel Al-Rai begins broadcasting, becoming the first private Kuwaiti channel to broadcast from Kuwait.
2008 – Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh and Syrian Minister Walid al-Muallem sign the declaration in Damascus opening diplomatic relations between the two countries.
2012 – The Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed a framework agreement intended to establish, within four years, lasting peace and autonomy for the Muslim minority on the southern island of Mindanao .
2015 – American archaeologists announce the discovery of the ruins of the city of Sodom, the city of the inhabitants of Lot mentioned in the Holy Quran and the Bible, after ten years of excavations.
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Births:
1801 – Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Egyptian thinker.
1814 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer.
1916 – Fouad Al Dhaheri, Egyptian musician.
1931 – Hassan Hosni, Egyptian actor.
**Abu Bakr Zainal Abidin Abdul Kalam, President of India.
1947 – Abdul Rahman Al-Sumait, Kuwaiti Islamic preacher and philanthropist.
1951 – Abdel Moneim Abu Al-Futouh, Egyptian politician.
1958 – Meriem Mint El Hassan, Spanish desert singer.
1963 – Jamal Al-Radhan, Kuwaiti actor.
1966 – Muhaisen Al-Jamaan, Saudi footballer.
1975 – Fatima Abdul Rahim, Bahraini actress.
1976 – Ramez Al-Aswad, Syrian actor.
1981 – Jarrah Al-Ateeqi, Kuwaiti footballer. ** Sofia Al-Marikh, Moroccan singer.
1982 – Olfat Omar, Egyptian actress.
1988 – Mesut Özil, German footballer.
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Death:
412 – Pope Theophilus, Pope of Alexandria.
912 – Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman, one of the Umayyad caliphs of Andalusia.
1946 – Hermann Goering, founder of the German secret police/Gestapo.
1967 – Abdullah Al-Fadala, Kuwaiti singer, composer and poet.
1969 – Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, second president of Somalia.
2010 – Sheikh Mustafa Al-Triki, Libyan cleric.
2012 – Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia.
2018 – Paul Allen, American businessman, co-created Microsoft with Bill Gates.
** Ahmed Abdel Wareth, Egyptian actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Global Handwashing Day.
⏪ Evacuation day in Tunisia.
⏪ Teachers’ Day in Brazil.
