The thirteenth of Jumada al-Akhira:

It happened on this day,,

In 892 AH / June 1487 AD, the Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz and the help of the Arab traveler Ibn Majid explore the Cape of Good Hope route during his return from India and his journey along the African coast.

* Year 1294 AH / June 1877 AD: Ottoman commander Ahmed Mukhtar Pasha defeats the Russian army in the Battle of Zvian in Anatolia.

* Year 1298 AH / May 1881 AD: France declares protection over Tunisia after the ruler of Tunisia signed the Treaty of Bardo with the French, which gave France the right to financial and military supervision in Tunisia.

* Year 1351 AH / October 1932 AD: The death of the Prince of Poets, “Ahmed Shawky”, Prince of Arab Poets. Born in Cairo, And by it he grew up and learned by it, He studied law in France.

* In 1367 AH / April 1948 AD, the Zionist Haganah gang takes over the Palestinian city of Haifa after horrific massacres.

Prepared by/a. Mohamed Hamdi Maddokh