August 30th, Death of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz

1928- Indian Independence Movement established.

1944- Soviet army enters Romania’s capital city, Bucharest.

1944- Independence of southern Vietnam announced.

1951- Mutual Defense Treaty signed between the United States and Philippines.
Born today
1748- Jacques Louis David, a French Neoclassical Artist, Best-Known for portraits of Napoleon.

Passed away
2006- Naguib Pasha Mahfouz, an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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