Memory of the day: 1st Cannes Film Festival launches in 1946

CAIRO – 20 September 2021: On September 20, many important events took place.

Important world events:

1187 - Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi begins the siege of Jerusalem.

1519 - The explorer Fernando Magellan arrives in the city of Saluka with 270 of his men on his round-the-world voyage.

1792 - The trial of King Louis XVI of France for high treason begins.

1932 - Mahatma Gandhi begins a hunger strike in Boma Prison, in protest against the British government's electoral law that prevents the poor from participating in elections.

1946 - The launching of the first Cannes Film Festival, which was postponed due to the Second World War. The opening was initially scheduled between September 1 and September 20, 1939.

2001 - US President George W. Bush declares in a speech to Congress the War on Terror.