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Date: 01 January 1899
From The Chicago News
Umm Kulthum (Arabic: أم كلثوم; c. 4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptian singer and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq (Arabic: كوكب الشرق, lit. 'Star of the Orient'). Immensely popular throughout the Middle East and beyond, Umm Kulthum is a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Umm Kulthum at number 61 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Her funeral in 1975 drew a crowd of over 4 million people, the largest human gathering in Egypt's history, even surpassing that of president Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Read more...The December 31, 1898 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 364 day of the year. President of the United States was William McKinley.
If you were born on this day, you are 126 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, December 31, 2024, 305 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, in 59 days. You have lived for 46,326 days, or about 1,111,827 hours, or about 66,709,672 minutes, or about 4,002,580,320 seconds.
Date: 01 January 1899
Date: 31 December 1898
Date: 31 December 1898
Date: 01 January 1899
Date: 31 December 1898