Memory of the day: Birth anniversary of Salah Zulfikar

CAIRO – 18 January 2021: On January 18, many important events that changed the world map took place.

Important events in world history:-
 

January 18 marks the feast of the Cross of Eastern Orthodoxy.

1778 - James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands and calls them the Sandwich Islands.

1863 - Ismail Pasha takes over the rule of Egypt after the death of his uncle, Governor Mohammad Said Pasha.

1948 - Imam Mohammad Mamoun al-Shennawi takes over the Sheikhdom of Al-Azhar.

1952 - The Tunisian popular revolution against the French occupation begins, and the French authorities arrest Habib Bourguiba.

Born on this day:-
 

1926 - Salah Zulfikar, actor.

1954 - Lotfi Bouchnak, Tunisian singer.

1971 - Josep Guardiola, Spanish football player and coach.

Died on this day:-
 

1881 - Auguste Mariette Pasha, French Egyptologist who founded the Egyptian Museum.

1863 - Mohammad Said Pasha, fourth ruler of Egypt from the Alawite Dynasty.

1974 - Hassan el-Baroudi, Egyptian actor.

2018 - Sabry Moussa, Egyptian novelist, journalist and screenwriter.