1598-William Shakespeare\u2019s play \u201cThe Merchant of Venice\u201d enters the Stationers\u2019 Register upon a decree by Queen Elizabeth.<\/p>\n
1896- The first edition of \u201cSham\u201d newspaper published in Damascus.<\/p>\n
1906- The coronation of Haakon VII as a King of Norway.<\/p>\n
1943- Banning the Nazi parties in Switzerland.<\/p>\n
1944- The independence of Poland.<\/p>\n
1946- 110 British people killed in an attack launched by the Zionist organization of the Irgun against King David Hotel, the headquarters of the British forces in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
1952- Forming a new government in Egypt led by Ahmed Najib al-Hilali.<\/p>\n
1970- Oman\u2019 Sultan Qaboos bin Said comes into power.<\/p>\n
1981- An Italian court finds Mehmet Ali Agca guilty of trying to assassinate John Paul II and sentences him to life in prison.<\/p>\n
1987- Opening fire on Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali in London.<\/p>\n
Born Today:<\/p>\n
1478- King Philip I of Castile.<\/p>\n
1510- Duke of Florence Alessandro de Medici.<\/p>\n
Passed away:<\/p>\n
1908- British politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1903 Sir William Randal
\nCremer.<\/p>\n
1936- Iraqi writer and Historian Ahmed Izzat al-A\u2019azami.<\/p>\n
R.J\/Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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