On this day there was a year

in history •  7 years ago 

events
749 - The fall of the Umayyad state.
1895 - Russia, Germany and France demand Japan return the Liaodong Peninsula to China after three-way negotiations.
1904 - The United States acquires ownership of the Panama Canal Company from France.
1920 - The Ottoman Sultan Mohammed VI was deposed after the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Ottoman Empire.
1945 Allied forces reach Bo in Italy during World War II.
1966 - Nissan Motors begins selling Nissan Sunny.
1985 - Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Al-Jarallah is subjected to an assassination attempt by shooting him seriously.
2003 - Chinese authorities shut down all schools and universities in the country for two weeks because of the SARS epidemic.
2004 - Five militants were killed by Saudi security forces in the city of Jeddah after a car chase.
Muqtada al-Sadr threatens to launch suicide attacks against the US military if the army attacks Najaf and Karbala.
Volkswagen Motor Company announces its intention to sell 10% of the company to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi worth $ 1.9 billion.

Born
1823 - Sultan Abdul Majeed I, Ottoman Sultan.
1858 - Max Planck, German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, 1918.
1957 - Kenji Kauai, a Japanese composer.

Deaths
1616 - William Shakespeare, a famous English writer.
2007 - Boris Yeltsin, the first president of the Russian Federation.

Holidays and events
World Book and Copyright Day.

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