It happened on this day, October 18
Events:
1801 – The French campaign against Egypt led by General Jacques François Menou leaves Egyptian territory.
1867 – The American flag is raised for the first time in Alaska, indicating the transfer of ownership of this region from the Russian Empire to the United States.
1898 – The United States occupies Puerto Rico.
1944 – The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
1970 – Syrian President Nour al-Din al-Atassi resigns from all his posts in protest against the army's interference in the political life and practices of Rifaat al-Assad, brother of Defense Minister Hafez al -Assad.
1977 – Creation of the European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg.
1979 – Khomeini stops executions in Iran.
1991 – The Soviet Union reestablishes relations with Israel, broken in 1967 after the Six-Day War.
2009 – Suicide bombings at a meeting in the Iranian town of Pishin, Sistan-Baluchistan province, by the Jundallah group, killing at least 43 people, including several prominent leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, such as Brigadier General Nour Ali Shushtari, deputy commander. ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
2011 – The first phase of the prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel began, with Egyptian mediation, where 477 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons were released, while Hamas handed over to Egypt its kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, marking the start of the exchange process.
2013 – The scientific journal Science publishes research on a skull found in Georgia, more precisely in Damnisi, calling into question the classification of the genus Homo.
2015 – The first phase of elections to Egypt's House of Representatives begins, amid reports of low turnout, particularly among young people.
2017 – Turkish Parliament approves a draft resolution granting fatwa houses and Islamic scholars the power to contract marriages between couples in the country, after it had been limited to employees of marriage affairs departments of municipalities since the establishment of the republic in 1923 AD.
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Births:
1909 – Ahmed Badrakhan, Egyptian director.
1929 – Violeta Chamorro, president of Nicaragua.
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.
1944 – Aisha Ibrahim, Kuwaiti actress.
1947 – Ahmed Abdel Wareth, Egyptian actor.
1965 – Suleiman Tony Franjieh, Lebanese politician.
** Zakir Naik, Indian preacher, Islamic preacher and theorist.
1977 – Houria Farghaly, Egyptian actress.
1978 – Nawal Muhammad, Saudi actress.
1983 – Dante Bonfim Costa Santos, Brazilian footballer.
1984 – Freida Pinto, Indian actress.
1985 – Rasha Al-Taqi, Lebanese actress working in Syria.
1991 – Tyler Posey, American actor and musician.
** Ibrahim Alama, goalkeeper of the Syrian national football team.
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Death:
1871 – Charles Babbage, British mathematician and inventor.
1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor, is the true inventor of the telephone.
1911 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist.
1931 – Thomas Edison, American inventor of the light bulb.
1973 – Leo Strauss, American philosopher.
1982 – Pierre Mendès France, French Prime Minister.
2014 – Harith Taha Al-Rawi, Iraqi poet.
2015 – Gamal Al-Ghitani, Egyptian writer and journalist.
2018 – Abdel Rahman Siwar Al-Dhahab, fifth president of the Sudanese Republic.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Alaska Day in the United States.
