Today in History
1-Cleopatra committed suicide
2- Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
3-1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
4-Birthday Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore (d. 1970)
5-Birthday Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (d. 1988)
6-International Youth Day (United Nations)
Voice and written by Azhar Niaz