On October 18, a number of significant events that altered the course of history happened. On this day, numerous luminaries in the fields of literature, politics, art, and other fields were born. They also left behind them literary, political, and artistic personalities for us to remember them by, as it falls on an annual holiday.
Important occasions
1801 – The French campaign against Egypt led by General Jacques Francois Mino leaves Egyptian lands.
In Alaska, the American flag is raised for the first time in 1867, signifying the country’s acquisition of control over the area from the Russian Empire.
Births
French philosopher Henry Bergson, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927, was born in 1859.
Director Ahmed Badrakhan served in 1909.
Actor Ahmed Abdel-Wareth was born in 1947.
Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Dam was born in 1960.
Mortality
Scottish Queen Margaret reigned beginning in 1541.
American inventor Thomas Edison was born in 1931.
Jamal Al-Ghitani in 2015.
The memories of today. Jamal Al-Gheitani departs Egypt after the French campaign concludes.
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