Memory of the day: Birth of Zakaria Ahmed, Ahmed Eid, Jannat

CAIRO – 6 January 2020:  On January 6, many important events took place that changed the map of the world, as many stars of art, politics and literature were born on this day in various different fields.

Important events in world history:-
 

1838 - Samuel Morse's experiment on electric telegraphy succeeds for the first time.

1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India and begins to help the poor and the sick.

1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt gives a speech in which he talks about human rights and calls this speech the Four Freedoms Speech.

1950 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China as the sole representative of the Chinese people and withdraws its recognition of Taiwan.

2019 - Actor Jeff Bridges receives an Honorary Cecil B. Demille Award at the 76th Golden Globe Awards.

Born on this day:-
 

1412 - Joan of Arc, French fighter and national hero.

1883 - Gibran Khalil Gibran, one of the Lebanese Diaspora poets.

1896 - Zakaria Ahmed, an Egyptian musician.

1916 - Mohsen Sarhan, Egyptian actor.

1931 - Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer and poet.

1943 - Nagwa Fouad, Egyptian belly dancer and actress.

1943 - Terry Venables, English football player and coach.

1953 - Manfred Kaltz, German footballer.

1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English actor.

1968 - Ahmed Eid, Egyptian actor.

1986 - Jannat, Moroccan singer.

Died on this day:-
 

1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher for the visually-impaired and inventor of Braille for the visually-impaired.

1918 - Georges Cantor, German mathematician

1990 - Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1958.

2017 - Om Puri, Indian actor.

Occasions:-
 

-  Christmas at the Armenian Orthodox Church, and Christmas Eve for most Eastern Christian denominations.

-  The Feast of the Divine Epiphany or the "Feast of Kings" or the so-called Epiphany for Christian sects.