It happened on this day, September 19th.
Events:
1356 – Edward the Black Prince leads England to a crushing victory over the French led by John II at the Battle of Poitiers.
1882 – Khedive Tawfiq issues a decree abolishing the Egyptian army.
1929 – Abolition of the “Fasily Woman” law, an Iraqi law aimed at compensating the family of a person murdered by a woman from the killer's family. The woman is called Fasiliyya and is forced to marry without a dowry, according to the custom of Iraqi tribes.
1941 – Nazi German forces capture kyiv, the capital of Soviet Ukraine, during World War II.
1957 – The United States conducts the first test to detonate an underground nuclear bomb.
1959 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev is banned from visiting Disneyland.
1962 – Muhammad Al-Badr Hamid Al-Din assumes leadership of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, succeeding Imam Ahmed bin Yahya.
1971 – The Sultanate of Oman joins the League of Arab States.
1973 – Prince Carl Gustaf is enthroned as King of Sweden, succeeding his grandfather, King Gustaf VI Adolf, as Carl XVI Gustaf.
1982 – American computer scientist Scott Falman sends an email suggesting the use of the patterns 🙂 and 🙁 to express states of joy and sadness. This email is considered the first document containing an emotion, or what is known as an “emoticon” or “smiley.”
1988 – Israel launches the satellite “Ofek 1” aboard the rocket “Shavit”.
1999 – A multinational United Nations peacekeeping force arrives in East Timor in an attempt to restore law and order in the region.
2002 – Civil war breaks out in Ivory Coast.
✴️ Five Israelis were killed in a Palestinian resistance attack on a bus in Tel Aviv and, as a result, Israeli tanks imposed a siege on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat inside his administrative headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank.
2004 – A Saudi court sentenced academic Saeed Bin Zuair to 5 years in prison after finding him guilty of inciting sedition and disobeying the rulers. Bin Zuair had spent 8 years in prison without being charged.
2006 – The Thai military turns against the government after several political crises and declares a state of emergency.
2007 – Lebanese MP Antoine Ghanem is assassinated by blowing up his car in the Sin El Fil neighborhood.
2014 – Announcement that more than 55% of Scots reject independence from the United Kingdom, following a popular referendum held in the country on September 18.
2015 – The end of the 11th African Games in Brazzaville and Egypt wins first place.
2016 – Around 300 armed men, most of them wounded, left the Al-Waer neighborhood of Homs for Idlib governorate, completing a previous reconciliation agreement with the Syrian state.
2017 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes south of the city of Puebla in southern Mexico, killing at least 217 people.
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Births:
86 – Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor.
1551 – Henry III, King of France.
1898 – Giuseppe Saragat, Italian president.
1900 – Mahmoud Fawzi, Vice President of the Egyptian Republic.
1908 – Mika Valtteri, Finnish novelist.
1911 – William Golding, English novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.
1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.
1927 – Rosemary Harris, English actress.
1928 – Abdel Salam Yassin, Moroccan Islamic preacher.
1934 – – Natila Rashed, Egyptian journalist.
1948 – Jeremy Irons, English actor.
1963 – David Seaman, English football goalkeeper.
1965 – Ugur Sahin, Turkish-German immunologist.
1970 – Sonny Anderson, Brazilian footballer.
** Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese singer.
1971 – Sanaa Lathan, American actress.
1974 – David Zepeda, Mexican actor.
1977 – Ashraf Ihsan Faqih, Saudi storyteller and writer.
1978 – Jorge Lopez, Spanish footballer.
1984 – Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor.
1989 – Mubarak Al-Mana, Kuwaiti actor.
** Shatha Gawdat, Egyptian actress.
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Death:
1710 – Ole Römer, Danish astronomer.
1834 – Imam Hamza Bey Al-Hutsali, one of the imams of Dagestan.
1843 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French mathematician.
1881 – James Garfield, American president.
1943 – Muhammad Hussein Al-Isfahani, Twelver Shiite scholar.
1962 – Ahmed bin Yahya, imam of the Mutawakkilite kingdom of Yemen.
1967 – Zinaida Serebryakova, Russian painter.
2000 – Muhammad Hamad Al-Barrak, Member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
2007 – Antoine Ghanem, Lebanese politician.
2011 – Anas Al-Saeedi, a Yemeni child killed during the Yemeni youth revolution.
2013 – Sai Zerbo, Burkinabe military officer.
2015 – Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, son of the ruler of Dubai, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
2018 – Jamil Rateb, Egyptian actor.
** Maeda Nuzhat, Iraqi artist.
2019 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, second president of Tunisia.
2021 – Ihab Khorshid, Egyptian actor.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
⬅️ Armed Forces Day in Chile.
⬅️ National Day of Beheira Governorate in Egypt.
