Who was born on April 22 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Mother Earth Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Stephen Lawrence Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Confederate Memorial Day.
🇷🇸 Serbia – Holocaust Remembrance Day.
🇧🇷 Brazil – The day Brazil was discovered.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Unofficial Programmers.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Fighter Aviation Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1370 – Construction of the Bastille begins.
– 1500 – The Portuguese squadron led by Pedro Álvarez Cabral landed on the lands of the future Brazil.
– 1509 – After the death of his father, Henry VII ascended the throne.
– 1529 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Zaragoza.
– 1662 – Charles II approved the charter of the Royal Society of London, which became an important scientific center of England.
– 1793 – George Washington announced the Declaration of the neutrality of the USA in the war of European countries against revolutionary France.
– 1794 – Kosciuszko’s Rebellion: The Vilena Rebellion begins.
– 1832 – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia was established according to the decree of Nicholas I.
– 1834 – The island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic was declared a British royal colony.
– 1838 – The English passenger steamer “Siruis” arrived in New York after sailing across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time without sails.
– 1863 – the first session of the Moscow City Duma was held.
– 1864 – according to the decision of the US Congress, the inscription “In God We Trust” began to be used on all banknotes.
– 1889 – US President Benjamin Franklin gave permission for white people to settle in Oklahoma.
– 1898 – On the eve of the Spanish-American War, the US fleet begins the blockade of Cuba.
– 1915 – World War I: Germany expands its use of toxins, using chlorine, against Anglo-French forces at Ypres.
– 1918 – Under the pressure of Turkey, it was announced that the Transcaucasian Federative Republic, independent from Russia, was formed.
– 1930 – Great Britain, Japan and the United States jointly signed the “London Maritime Agreement”.
– 1939 – Geoffrey Stephenson Slingsby’s Gall glider made the first flight over the English Channel.
– 1943 – Albert Hofmann presented the first report on the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
– 1945 – during the “Berlin operation”, the advanced units of the Red Army entered the capital of the III Reich and began to storm Berlin.
– 1952 – 35 million Americans witnessed a nuclear bomb test in Nevada.
– 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar declare their unification into the single country of Tanzania.
– 1969 – The first human eye transplant was performed in Houston.
– 1970 – the first action was held at the initiative of the US public to protect the environment, later this day was designated by the UN General Assembly as International Mother Earth Day.
– 1980 – Canada announced a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games.
– 1983 – The German magazine “Stern” began to publish Hitler’s diaries (which later turned out to be fake).
– 1993 – The first version of the Mosais web browser was released.
– 2004 – At least 150 people died in a collision between two trains in China.
– 2005 – An explosion at a chemical plant in the suburbs of Chongxing, China destroyed three buildings and left 19 people missing.
– 2010 – An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico near the US coast was destroyed by fire.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1451 – Isabella of Castile (1504) – Queen of Castile and Leon (1474-1504).
– 1518 – Antoine de Bourbon (1562) – King of Navarre, father of Henry IV, the first representative of the Bourbons on the throne of France.
– 1592 – Wilhelm Schickard (1635) – German astronomer, mathematician and orientalist, created the first arithmetic meter (adding machine).
– 1724 – Immanuel Kant (1804) – German philosopher.
– 1766 – Anna Louise Germaine de Staal (1817) – French writer, literary theorist, publicist.
– 1834 – Gaston Plante (1889) – French physicist, inventor of the lead battery.
– 1839 – August Wilhelm Eichler (1887) was a German botanist who created the first widely used classification of plants.
– 1853 – Alphonse Bertillon (1914) – French criminologist, anthropologist, developed the system of forensic identification.
– 1870 – Vladimir Lenin (1924) – Russian revolutionary, Soviet political and statesman, “the genius of the world revolution”.
– 1876 – Róbert Bárány (1936) – Austrian otolaryngologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1914).
– 1899 – Vladimir Nabokov (1977) – Russian and American writer, poet, translator, literary critic and entomologist.
– 1902 – Gabit Musrepov (1985) – Kazakh writer and public figure.
– 1904 – Robert Oppenheimer (1967) – American physicist, creator of the atomic bomb.
– 1912 – Malik Qayumov (2010) – film director, cinematographer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1948). People’s Artist of the USSR (1967).
– 1919 – Donald Cram (2001) – American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize.
– 1925 – Mamatkhon Ubaidullayev (2010) – actor, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1982).
– 1929 – Michael Francis Atiya (2019) – British mathematician.
– 1937 – John Joseph “Jack” Nicholson – American actor, director, screenwriter and producer. Nicholson is considered one of the greatest actors in film history.
– 1942 – Aydin Hojieva – People’s Poet of Uzbekistan.
– 1944 – Yormuhammad Muborakov (1999) – mechanical scientist, Academician of FA of Uzbekistan (1994).
– 1957 – Donald Tusk – Prime Minister of Poland (2007-2014).
– 1964 – Igor Danilov – Russian programmer, Dr. Creator of web antivirus.
– 1965 – Fikret Kushkan – Turkish actor.
– 1974 – Vasiliy Virastyuk – honored master of sports of Ukraine, holder of the title “The strongest man in the world”.
– 1975 – Hosila Rahimova – singer, honored artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1982 – Kaka – Brazilian football player, world champion (2002).
– 1986 – Amber Laura Heard is an American film and television actress.
– 1989 – Jasper Cillessen – Dutch football player, goalkeeper.
– 1990 – Eve Muirhead – Scottish curler, Olympic champion.
– 1999 – Maryana Naumova – Russian athlete, world record holder and champion in powerlifting, public figure.