It happened that day on August 20
Events:
636 AD – The Battle of Yarmouk is between the Muslims led by Khalid Bin Al -Walid and the Byzantines led by Hercules.
1191-Richard I, king of England, started in the acre massacre, 1191, killing 2,600 to 3,000 Muslim hostages.
1882 – The British Occupy Port declared and Ismailia, at the start of the English occupation of Egypt.
1914 – Germany occupied Brussels during the First World War.
1940 – The communist leader Lyon Trotsky is exposed to an assassination in Mexico who led his death per day.
1953 – The beginning of the King and People’s Revolution in Morocco after having denied the French protection of the country’s sultan, Mohamed Bin Youssef.
1955 – Eix Lebanon negotiations between representatives of the Moroccan national movement and the French authorities, the end of French protection against Morocco.
1956 – The leaders of the Algerian revolution hold the Somalam conference in the Kabylia region, in which they made the decision to establish the National Council for the Algerian Revolution.
1960 – Announcement of the independence of Senegal.
1971 – The Syrian President Hafez Al -Assad, the Egyptian Anwar Sadat and the Libyan Muammar Gaddafi signed in Damascus the Constitution of the Union of Arab Republics.
1975 – NASA launches the Viking explorer 1 to March.
✴️ The Checkoslovaka civilian plane, east of Damascus, the Prague Euyury L-62, was killed in the 126 passengers accident.
1976 – The chief of Druze Kamal Jumblatt warns the creation of a national house in Maronite in Lebanon which is more dangerous than Israel.
1977 – Voyager 2 Space Probe launched.
1982 – Multinational forces oversee the withdrawal of the forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon.
1986 – The Soviet Union officially recognizes the catastrophe of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
1987 – Resolution 598 of the United Nations Security Council was published to announce the start of the end of the First Gulf War between Iraq and Iran.
1991 – Estonia announces its independence from the Soviet Union in the first signs of the collapse of the Federation.
1998 – The United States launched Cruz missiles on Afghanistan and Sudan, a revenge for the attack on its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2002 – The Iraqis against the reign of Saddam Hussein occupy the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for several hours.
2008 -The Jordanian authorities released Jordanian prisoners, Sultan Al -Ajlouni, Amin Al -Sanea, Khaled Abu Ghalioun and Salem Abu Ghalioun, according to an agreement to release them after having spent a period of 18 months in Jordanian prisons after having received the Israeli prisons.
2009 – Scotland announces the release of the convicted person in the case of Lockerbie Abdel Baset Al -Muqrahi for humanitarian reasons.
✴️ The second presidential election in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban government.
✴️ The Jamaican runner Yossin Bolt broke the world record in 200 meters in the world athletics championship.
2011 – The Battle of Tripoli began in the battles of the Revolution of February 17 to release the Libyan capital from the forces of Colonel Mouammar Gaddafi.
2014 -The Israeli army assassinates three leaders of the Izz Al -Qassam, Raed Al -attar, Muhammad Abu Shamala and Muhammad Barhoum brigades in the context of his war against Gaza.
2015 – Bombs in Egypt targeting government buildings in Cairo and Giza.
2016 – An explosion in the city of Gaziantep in the south of Türkiye near the Syrian border, and injuries and killed in the attack.
2017 – Saudi Arabia announces the start of the summary of 10 economic sectors in the country, including the Hajj and OMRA sector in the 2030 vision plan aimed at diversifying the Saudi economy.
2019 -The Transitional Military Council dissolved after the formation of the Sudanese sovereign council led by Abdel -Fattah Al -Burhan, which led nine members of the Council The Constitutional Oath, provided that the Council ruled Sudan for a 39 -month transition period.
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Born:
1191 – Ahmed bin Asfandiaar al -Baghdadi, Shiite Sufism and an Iraqi Arab poet.
1779 – Yunus Yakoub Bertilius, Swedish chemist.
1833 – Benjamin Harrison, American president.
1858 – Omar Al -Mukhtar, commander of the Libyan resistance against the Italian occupation of Libya.
1860 – Raymond POANCARIE, French president.
1888 – Mohamed Hussein Heikal, Egyptian poet, writer and politician.
1890 – Howard Phillips Lavaraft, American writer.
1901 – Salvatore Kawazimudo, an Italian poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959.
1913 – Roger Spery, an American nervous scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1981.
1933 – George Mitchell, American politician.
1935 – Ron Paul, an American politician.
1936 – Hediki Sherrakawa, a Japanese chemist who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000.
1941 – Slobodan Miloshivic, President of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1944 – Rajif Gandhi, Prime Minister of Indians.
1946 – Laurent Fabius, French politician.
1948 – Hassan Naji, Jordanian poet and theater writer.
1956 – Joan Allen, an American actress.
1965 – Hoda Hussein, an Iraqi actress working in Kuwait.
1968 – Class Engoson, Swedish football player.
1972 – Adel Karam, Lebanese actor.
1974 – Amy Adams, an American actress.
1975 – Badriya al -Badri, poet and writer of Omani.
1976 – Iman Najm, Media Kuwait.
1977 – Evar Ingimerson, Icelandic football player.
1978 – Taqi Mubarak, Omanai football player.
1980 – Jenny Esber, a Syrian actress.
1981 – Bernard Mende, French football player.
1982 – Joshua Kennedy, Australian football player.
1983 – Yuri Jerkov, a Russian football player.
1992 – Demi Lovato, American actress.
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Mortality:
1914 – Pope Pius X, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1915 – Powell Erlet, a German doctor who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908.
1917 – Adolf von Bayer, a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905.
1961 – Percy Williams Precran, an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946.
1998 – Heidi Tamzali, a Tunisian actress.
2001 – Yasser Al -Badawi, a Palestinian preventive security agency.
2011 – Fateki Nagham, an Algerian actress.
2012 – Malas Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister.
** Dom Mintouf, Prime Minister of Malti. Mika Yamamoto, Japanese journalist.
2017 – Jerry Lewis, American actor.
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Holidays and events:
⬅️ Eid re -Bainting independence in Estonia.
