It happened on this day, October 16
Events:
1793 – Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, King of France, is executed for treason.
1924 – Saudi forces enter the city of Mecca after Sharif Hussein retreats to Jeddah.
1933 – King Fouad signs a decree creating the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo.
(1945–Foundation of the Food and Agriculture Organization/FAO
1946 – 10 World War II criminals are executed after being found guilty by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
1948 – 16 European countries sign the Marshall Plan, which provides significant U.S. economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II.
1949 – End of the civil war in Greece.
1965 – Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba proposes opening a direct dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians.
1967 – Protest marches in 30 American cities to protest the continuation of the war in Vietnam.
1970 – Mohamed Anwar Sadat officially assumes the Egyptian presidency, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser, having served as interim president since his death in his capacity as vice president.
1978 – Cardinal Karol Wojtyala is elected pope of the Catholic Church. He takes the name John Paul II in honor of Pope John Paul I, who served only a month, then died and succeeded him. pope since 1522.
1986 – An Israeli plane crashes over southern Lebanon with pilot Ron Arad on board.
1991 Pro-Soviet Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah resigns from office.
1998 – Scotland Yard arrests former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet in London.
2002 – Opening of the new library of Alexandria in Egypt.
2003 – The UN Security Council adopts a draft American resolution stipulating the creation of a multinational force in Iraq under American command, without specifying a date for the return of sovereignty to the Iraqis.
2004 – US President George W. Bush signs a new law requiring the US State Department to record anti-Semitic acts around the world and present countries' positions on the issue.
2009 – The Human Rights Council votes in favor of the report of the Goldstone Commission on the attack launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip in December 2008, with a majority of 25 votes, 6 votes against and 11 countries abstaining from voting.
2012 – Trial of Radovan Karadžić begins before the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague as a war criminal; After his arrest and after a Serbian judge investigated what was attributed to him. In this trial, Karadžić faces fourteen counts of crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War. These include the notorious Srebrenica massacre, in which thousands of Bosnian Muslims were killed, and the deportation of tens of thousands of Croats in a process of ethnic cleansing aimed at establishing a Serbian state in Bosnia.
2013 – An ATR 72 airliner crashed in Laos, killing all 49 people on board, including 5 cabin crew members.
2017 – Sooronbay Jeenbekov wins Kyrgyz presidential elections, becoming the first president in the country's history to whom power is transferred peacefully.
🌟 The Iraqi army and the Iraqi Federal Police enter the center of the city of Kirkuk and impose their control over the entire Kirkuk governorate and also announce control of oil installations, in an operation aimed at imposing control government over the disputed territories.
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Births:
1758 – Noah Webster, American linguist.
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist and poet.
** Karl Kautsky, German-Czech philosopher.
1868 – Ahmed Shawqi, Egyptian poet nicknamed the Prince of Poets.
1886 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel.
1894 – Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel.
1903 – Youssef Yacoub Maskouni, Iraqi professor, history researcher and writer.
1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian politician.
1914 – Muhammad Zahir Shah, king of Afghanistan.
1918 – Louis Althusser, French philosopher.
1919 – Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, second president of Somalia.
1948 – Hema Malini, Indian actress.
1949 – Issam Abbaji, Syrian actor.
1953 – Falcao, Brazilian footballer.
1962 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player.
1966 – Tariq Al-Habib, Saudi doctor of psychology.
1967 – Mahmoud Abdel Aziz (singer), Sudanese.
1970 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer.
1977 – Najah Al-Masaeed, Jordanian journalist and poet.
** Fatima Al-Abdullah, Kuwaiti journalist and actress.
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Death:
1793 – Queen Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI of France.
1956 – Jules Rimet, President of FIFA.
1959 – Brigadier general. George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953
1971 – Saeed Abu Bakr, Egyptian actor.
1973 – Riyad Abdul Latif Al-Shehabi, Iraqi soldier.
1981 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli politician and soldier.
2011 – Omar Hariri, Egyptian actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ World Nutrition Day.
