The eighth of Jumada al-Akhira:

It happened on this day,,

* Year 937 AH = 7 February 1531 AD: The Ottoman fleet triumphs over the Portuguese fleet near the island of Diu in the Indian Ocean.

* Year 1014 AH / October 1605 AD: Sultan Nuruddin Muhammad “Jahangir Khan bin Akbar” assumes power, He is the fourth Muslim Mughal sultan in India and during his reign the foreign occupation forces began to look forward to controlling India under the name of “trade”, His reign lasted twenty-three years.

* Year 1307 AH / January 1890 AD: The death of “Khair al-Din al-Tunisi Pasha”, one of the pioneers of reform in the Islamic world, He is of Caucasian origin, Introduced to Tunisia young, His talents qualified him to hold several positions, The most important of these is the position of the great leader during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid.

* Year 1422 AH / August 2001 AD: Israeli warplanes fire missiles at the headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Ramallah, killing the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Abu Ali Mustafa, who was in a library at the time.

* Year 1425 AH / June 2004 AD: About 200,000 Zionists demonstrate against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. They formed a 90-kilometer human chain from East Jerusalem to the northern Gaza Strip.

Prepared by/a. Mohamed Hamdi Maddokh