Memory of the day: General Committee for Egyptian Workers & Students calls for general strike against British occupation in 1946

CAIRO – 21 February 2021: On February 21, many important events that changed the world map took place.

Important world events:-
 

1848 - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.

1922 - The United Kingdom ends the protection it imposed on Egypt in 1914.

1946 - The General Committee for Egyptian Workers and Students calls for a general strike against the British occupation authorities in response to the Abbas Bridge incident that took place on February 9.

1965 - Malcolm X or Haj Malik Shabazz, president of the African American Federation and official spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, is assassinated while in the conference hall in New York City.

Egyptians born on this day:-
 

1914 - Mustafa and Ali Amin.

1930 - Ramadan Abdel Tawab, Egyptian linguist.

1950 - Al-Muntaser Billah, Egyptian actor.