Memory of the day: Mamluk Tumanbay becomes Sultan of Egypt in 1516

CAIRO – 11 October 2021: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on October 11.

1138 - The Great Aleppo earthquake took place, which is considered the fourth largest deadly earthquake in history.

1516 - The inauguration of Mamluk Tuman Bey as Sultan of Egypt, succeeding Sultan Qansuah al-Ghouri, who was killed in the Battle of Marj Dabiq.

1910 - US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first president in the world to fly a plane for four minutes. The airplane was built by the Wright Brothers in Missouri.

2012 - The Swedish Academy announces that Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature for his mixture of folk, history and contemporary stories with hallucinatory realism.