It happened on this day, September 1st.
Events:
1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia draws up the charter “In Castro Nostro Visoca Vocatum”, the first mention of the ancient city of Visoki.
2:20 p.m. – A 9.4 ms earthquake hits the Atacama region of Chile, causing a tsunami in Chile as well as Hawaii and Japan.
1449 – Tumu Crisis: The Mongols capture the Emperor of China.
1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancte Spirito, the first fort built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
1535 – French navigator Jacques Cartier arrives in the “Hochelaga region”, where the city of Montreal, the economic capital of Canada, is established.
1715 – Louis, Duke of Anjou, regains power over France under the name of Louis XV, after the death of King Louis XIV.
1892 – The first issue of the cultural magazine Al-Hilal is published.
1920 – For the first time, Lebanon included several regions subject to the French mandate. Its emergence was part of the liquidation of the legacy of the Ottoman Empire. This state included Mount Lebanon and included Beirut, Tripoli, Baalbek, Hermel. , and the South, and they were all called the State of Greater Lebanon.
1923 – A devastating earthquake hits the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, killing more than 150,000 people and leaving more than two million homeless.
1939 – Germany attacks Poland, starting World War II.
1958 – Creation of the Royal Moroccan Army Club.
1969 – Muammar Gaddafi leads a bloodless military coup against King Muhammad Idris al-Senussi and seizes power in Libya in what is known as the September Revolution of the Conquerors.
1971 – Official announcement of the creation of the Union of Arab Republics, which included Egypt, Libya and Syria, but the union was formal and played no role.
1983 – The Soviet Air Force shoots down a South Korean Boeing 747, killing all 269 passengers on board.
1985 – The wreck of the sunken Titanic is found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 73 years after its sinking.
1991 – The United States recognizes Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as independent countries.
1992 – Ratification of the Slovak Constitution, which came into force on 1 January 1993.
2004 – Chechen rebels arrest more than 1,200 students at a school in Beslan, Russia.
2009 – The Iraqi Islamic Supreme Council elects Ammar al-Hakim as president, succeeding his father Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.
2010 – Direct negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis begin after years of hiatus in the United States, attended by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Barack Obama, Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, and Jordanian King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein.
2017 – Kenya's Supreme Court invalidates the results of Kenya's presidential election and orders new elections to be held within 60 days.
2019 – Hurricane Dorian hits the Bahamas after reaching strength five on the Saffir-Simpson scale, killing at least 5 people.
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Births:
1877 – Francis Aston, British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922.
1895 – Khaled Al-Faraj, Kuwaiti poet and writer.
1921: Gerhard Weinland, German singer.
1928 – Ahmed Al-Waeli, Iraqi Shiite poet and theologian.
1933 – Ann Richards, American politician.
1935 – Ihab Nafea, Egyptian actor and fighter pilot.
1939 – Lily Tomlin, American actress.
1941 – Tony Franjieh, Lebanese politician.
(1945–MustafaBabelTurkish novelist
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, Korean president.
1950 – Phil McGraw, American writer and psychologist.
1952 – Hala Sarhan, Egyptian journalist.
1955 – Safwat Al-Shawadfi, Egyptian Islamic scholar and preacher.
1956 – Ayman Zidane, Syrian actor.
1957 – Nasima Daher, Syrian actress.
1958 – Karim Al Mahrous, Bahraini politician.
1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer and coach.
** Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer.
1968 – Mohamed Atta, an Egyptian considered by the FBI to be one of the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer and coach.
1971 – Dave Wittenberg, American actor.
** Hakan Sukur, Turkish footballer.
1975 – Luna Al-Shibl, Syrian media personality.
1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer.
1978 – Marwa Muhammad, Saudi actress and TV host.
1979 – Karam Gaber, Egyptian wrestler.
1980 – Chris Riggott, English footballer.
** Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer.
1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer.
1986 – Gaël Monfils, French tennis player.
1989 – Muhammad Assaf, Palestinian singer.
** Daniel Sturridge, English footballer.
1997 – Jung Kook, Korean singer.
2003 – Amani Mohamed, Egyptian footballer.
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Death:
870 – Imam Al-Bukhari, one of the most famous hadith scholars and author of Sahih Al-Bukhari.
1557 – Jacques Cartier, French sailor and explorer.
1278 – Ibn al-Dhahir al-Irbilli, Hanafi jurist and Iraqi writer.
1648 – Marine Mersenne, French mathematician.
1715 – King Louis XIV, King of France.
(1945-AbdulQadirAhmedAl-HaddadSyrian poet and teacher
1967 – Ilse Koch, a Nazi prison guard who killed Jewish inmates and enemies of Nazism.
1970 François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952.
** Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Sinan, Saudi mystic, mathematician, jurist and writer.
1981 – Albert Speer, German architect, politician, and director of arms production for Nazi Germany during World War II.
1988 – Luis Alvarez, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968.
2004 – Mubarak Falih Ra'i Al-Fahmaa, Member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
** Sheikh Ahmed Kaftaro, former mufti of Syria.
2007 – Viliam Struev, Slovak footballer.
2011 – Kamal Al-Salibi, Lebanese historian.
2018 – Saad Al-Silawi, Jordanian journalist.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Uzbekistan.
⬅️ Constitution Day in Slovakia.
⬅️ Knowledge Day in Russia.
⬅️ Teachers' Day in Singapore.
