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 and that 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 lasting peace and autonomy for the Muslim minority on the southern island of Mindanao within four years.
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:
70 BC – Vergelius, Roman poet.
1608 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist.
1784 – Marshal Thomas Robert Piguet, French soldier.
1801 – Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, Egyptian thinker.
1814 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer.
1844 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and poet.
1864 – Jaafar Abu Al-Makarem, Saudi jurist and poet.
1878 – Paul Reynaud, French Prime Minister.
1916 – Fouad Al Dhaheri, Egyptian musician.
1920 – Mario Puzo, American novelist.
1926 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher.
1931 – Abu Bakr Zainal Abidin Abdul Kalam, President of India.
1944 – Dr. Sali Barisha, second president of Albania.
** David Trimble, Northern Irish politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
1947 – Abdul Rahman Al-Sumait, Kuwaiti Islamic preacher and philanthropist.
1951 – Abdel Moneim Abu Al-Futouh, Egyptian politician.
1951 – Hani Al Mulki, Prime Minister of Jordan – Jordanian politician
1958 – Meriem Mint El Hassan, Spanish desert singer.
1959 – Masako Katsuki, Japanese actress.
1963 – Jamal Al-Radhan, Kuwaiti actor.
1966 – Muhaisen Al-Jamaan, Saudi footballer.
** Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer.
1968 – Didier Deschamps, French footballer.
1971 – Andy Cole, English footballer.
1975 – Fatima Abdul Rahim, Bahraini actress.
** Peter Rasmussen, Danish football referee.
** Glen Little, English footballer.
1976 – Ramez Al-Aswad, Syrian actor. 1977 – David Trezeguet, French footballer.
1978 – Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer.
1979 – Paul Robinson, English footballer.
** Maris Verbakovskis, Latvian footballer.
1981 – Jarrah Al-Ateeqi, Kuwaiti footballer.
** Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player.
** Sofia Al-Marikh, Moroccan singer.
1982 – Olfat Omar, Egyptian actress.
1986 – Lee Donghae, Super Junior singer and Korean actor
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.
1564 – Andreas Vesalius, Flemish (Belgian) surgeon and anatomist.
1817 – Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish soldier.
1934 – Raymond Poincaré, tenth president of France.
(1945-PierreLavalFrench Prime Minister
1946 – Hermann Goering, founder of the German secret police/Gestapo.
1964 – Cole Porter, American musician.
1967 – Abdullah Al-Fadala, Kuwaiti singer, composer and poet.
1969 – Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, second president of Somalia.
1987 – Pioneer. Thomas Sankara, 5th president of Burkina Faso.
2000 – Conrad Bloch, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1964.
2010 – Sheikh Mustafa Al-Triki, Libyan cleric.
2012 – Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia.
2014 – Abdul Hussein Al-Salhi, Iranian-Iraqi religious historian.
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.
