July 22th, Opening fire on Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali in London

1598-William Shakespeare’s play “The Merchant of Venice” enters the Stationers’ Register upon a decree by Queen Elizabeth.

1896- The first edition of “Sham” newspaper published in Damascus.

1906- The coronation of Haakon VII as a King of Norway.

1943- Banning the Nazi parties in Switzerland.

1944- The independence of Poland.

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.

1952- Forming a new government in Egypt led by Ahmed Najib al-Hilali.

1970- Oman’ Sultan Qaboos bin Said comes into power.

1981- An Italian court finds Mehmet Ali Agca guilty of trying to assassinate John Paul II and sentences him to life in prison.

1987- Opening fire on Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali in London.

Born Today:

1478- King Philip I of Castile.

1510- Duke of Florence Alessandro de Medici.

Passed away:

1908- British politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1903 Sir William Randal
Cremer.

1936- Iraqi writer and Historian Ahmed Izzat al-A’azami.

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